"You don't mean what you say."
"Pepita!"
Pepita blushed and looked embarrassed. Dick had called her by her Christian name; but she did not appear to resent it.
"You don't know who I am," she said at last. "Why do you pretend to be so friendly?"
"I know that you are Pepita, and I don't want to know any thing more, except one thing, which I am afraid to ask."
Pepita quickened her pace.
"Do not walk so fast, Pepita," said Dick, beseechingly. "Let the walk be as long as you can."
"But if I walked so slowly you would never let me get home."
"I wish I could make the walk so slow that we could spend a life-time on the road."
Pepita laughed. "That would be a long time."