"Very!"
And Ralph wrung the water out of his falling cuff.
"I say, though," said he, "things seem to have been going on very tranquilly here."
"Sir?"
"Come, old fellow!" don't be ashamed of—"
"What, sir! I ashamed?"
"Of kneeling down—you know."
And Ralph, smiling confidentially, made significant signs over his shoulder toward Miss Sallianna, who had withdrawn with blushing diffidence to the other end of the portico, and was gently waving her fan as she gazed upon the sunset.
"The fact is, I was arranging her shoe-bow," said Mr. Jinks.
"Oh!" said Ralph, "gammon,"