"To-day! To-morrow! Soon!"
"O impatient youth!" she murmured. "Second, shall your wife enjoy all liberty?"
"So much as she desire," he answered tenderly.
"Third, shall she live in town i' the season, attend balls, theatres, routs, card-parties, masquerades, drums and the like?"
"If she so wish," said he, a little sadly; perceiving which, she nestled closer to him.
"Fourth, will you swear to be a husband à la mode?"
"What may that be?" he enquired.
"Will you be very polite to your wife and seldom intrude upon her privacy as is the modish custom, will you keep separate establishments, will you——"
"By heaven—no!" exclaimed the Major; whereat, and very suddenly, she kissed him.
"Indeed I do think you will make almost as good a husband as lover!" she sighed. "And—Major Jack, dear—if you would wed me soon——"