"I shall see you at the dance, to-night?" she asked.
"I shall be there."
"I have saved the third for you. You do not deserve it, but I saved it, none the less."
He bowed low. "Only the third?"
"Only the third," she said, as the coach rolled away.
"And what have you saved for me?" said Parkington, who overheard the last words.
"Whatever you like," she answered, "except the third."
"Then I take as many as I may; I want them all."
"You are modest," she said.
"You are the first that ever told me so."