"Two years will seem a very long time," I said, "but I shall remember you and wait for you for ever."
He smiled and said, "Those two years will be almost for ever to me, but I have bought my chance dear, and even the hope of such happiness is more than I deserve."
And then I called father and told him. He was very grave, and said to Johnny, "It depends on you; if you can show yourself a different sort of man and wipe out the record you have made for yourself, well, then, I suppose she will be of age, and it will be your own affair—but I hope she will forget you." That was absurd!
So I kissed Johnny good-by—though father didn't like that at all—for it would help to make the two years shorter.
THE END