"Of course, I'm ever so much obliged to you," he said, "and all that sort of thing."
"And you love me, Gregory, don't you?" she asked, tenderly.
"Did you ever! I wish she'd stop," he said to himself. "She makes me awful uncomfortable."
"Don't you love me, Gregory?"
"If I didn't love you, do you think I would have asked you to become Mrs. Lovell?" he said, evading the question.
"To be sure, Gregory," she replied, trying to look satisfied.
"And now I must go; I must, 'pon my honor," he said, rising.
"You have been here so short a time," she pleaded.
"But I promised to be at the club. I'm to meet a fellow officer, and it's the hour now."
"Then I must let you go. But you'll come again soon?"