PRIMROSE DEANE.

No dress! No flowers! No presents! No people!

No cake! (Nell shakes her head.) How will you know that you're married?

NELLY MORRIS.

(A little bitterly.) I shall wake to the fact soon enough.

PRIMROSE DEANE.

Nelly, didn't you ever have a young lover? Mr. Cherry's awfully nice and good, but you know what I mean—somebody handsome, and big, and impudent. Who—— (With a girl's quickness notices the trembling of Nelly's lip.) Was it very long ago?

NELLY MORRIS.

(Very low.) I think so—very, very long ago.

PRIMROSE DEANE.