"I knew it all the time," said his wife. "Do you remember, Mr.
O'Grady, I winked at you?"
"The girl is a good girl," said her husband, "and well brought up."
"Yes," said his wife, "her hair reaches down to her waist, and she won a prize for composition—Jessica's First Prayer, all about a girl with——"
Mr. O'Reilly continued—
"She brings me up a cup of tea every morning before I get up."
"She never wore spectacles in her life," said Mrs. O'Reilly, "and she got a prize for freehand drawing."
"She did so," said Mr. O'Reilly.
His wife continued—
"The Schoolboy Baronet it was; all about a young man that broke his leg down a coal mine and it never got well again until he met the girl of his heart."
"Tell me," said Mr. O'Reilly, "how are you young people going to live, and where?"