!"

But I think nothing short of brute force could have kept Mr. Woods

from her.

"Peggy," he babbled--"ah, forgive me if I'm a presumptuous ass--but

was it because you knew I couldn't ask you to marry me so long as you

had the money?"

She dallied with her bliss. Margaret was on the other side of the

table.

"Why--why, of course it wasn't!" she panted. "What nonsense!"

"Look at me, Peggy!"