In the maiden's face came a brighter look. "Yes, that is true, isn't it?"
"'Course it is! And we will be doing something new and different. It makes folks famous to be the first to do things. Look at Christopher Columbus, and look at Benjamin Franklin, the first man to fly a kite and steer lightnin' and make it mind him."
"Was he married when he was a child?"
"Nobody knows. But if you and I are the first children to get married—the very first, why our pictures might be in history books."
Ruth laughed. "That would be funny, wouldn't it?"
"Yes, wouldn't it! And under it would be printed Mr. and Mrs. Ruth Heywood."
"Oh, no! It would be Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Alton. It's always that way."
"Then we'll be the first ones to do it the new way. We needn't do just like everybody else. But who's going to wait fourteen years. Not us! If your father is too busy to do it, we'll get somebody else."
"Who?"