"'What are you thinking about?' she responded to his appeal.
"'Rocking horses,' he said. 'Will you marry me?' And then desperately, 'I know that's not the way to put it'; and then convulsively, 'I love you.'
"She waited till he had finished and then she said.... 'That's a very nice way to put it.'"
"This seems to one reader at least one of the best proposals in fiction.
"Perhaps these stories are not classics. But they are of the very best of to-day's. They are not only charming, and fresh, but they have a nobility; they are seriously concerned with our lonely emotional needs.
"And there are things in them that touch the very core of one's heart. Things a reader is startled to find in print—things he had supposed not expressible. Secret things that make him whisper, 'Why I thought no one knew that but myself.'
Clarence Day, Jr."
In answer to a letter of thanks from Elizabeth he wrote:
"It made me so sad to read some of the reviews of your book. I knew of course how few people appreciated fine writing, but now I know how few people have ever been in love."
Mr. Heath Moore put this review into my hands before we parted and I thought it was clever of him to know the pleasure it would give me.