Entering the shop, Maud took the lead, and, advancing to the counter, asked the shopman:—
“Will you show me some of your cravats?”
“For yourself, miss?” asked the shopman, surprised. “We don’t keep ladies’ goods.”
“No, for this young gentleman, my cousin,” she added, looking at Harry.
“But, Maud, you mustn’t buy anything for me,” interposed Harry, in a low voice.
“Yes, I shall,” said Maud. “I don’t like your cravat at all. I’m going to buy you a nice one.”
Harry continued to remonstrate, but he found that opposition only made Maud more determined. So he was obliged to submit, while she purchased for him two handsome neckties.
“There, Harry,” she said, placing them in his hand, as they left the shop, “I expect you to put one of them on as soon as you get home.”
“What will your father say, Maud?” asked Harry. “Perhaps he won’t like it.”