“But then if it hadn’t been, you would not have ventured to tempt me,” he added. “I’m grateful for the temptation, at any rate.”
“His first temptation!” she mocked.
“No, not likely—but his first that he has resisted.”
“And why did you resist? The fact that we are on a public street would not restrain you. There was absolutely no one within sight—and you knew it.”
“How do you know it?”
“Because I looked.”
“You were afraid?”
“Not at all!—only careful.” 239
“This is rather faster than the former going!” he laughed.
“We would better slow down a bit!” she laughed back. “Any way, here is the Cemetery, and we dare not go faster than a walk in it. Yonder, just within the gates, is the Duval burial place. Come, I’ll show you Parmenter’s grave?”