"But you know a few days is a very long time, when you want to see anybody very much."
Redbud returned his frank smile, and said, with a delicious little prim expression:
"Did you want to see me very much, Verty?"
"Yes, indeed; I didn't know how much I liked you," said the boy, with his ingenuous laugh; "the woods didn't look right, and I was always thinking about you."
Redbud colored slightly, but this soon disappeared, and she laughed in that low, joyous, musical tone, which characterized her.
"There it is!" said Verty, going through the same ceremony; "that's one thing I missed."
"What?"
"Your laughing!"
"Indeed!" Redbud said.
"Yes, indeed. I declare, on my word, that I would rather hear you laugh, than listen to the finest mocking-bird in the world."