"I think so."
"It must be awfully jolly, then, to have her around all the time, same's you have folks when you're married to 'em. I wanted Prue to wait for me, 'n' marry me. She said she would; but you see she didn't."
"Yes, so I see; but if I should happen not to live you might have a chance still."
Leander eyed the speaker for some seconds in silence before he said, "You wa'n't drowned when the Vireo went to pieces?"
"Apparently not."
"Yes, it does seem so. Did she go on a rock?"
"No; run into."
"And what became of you 'n' Prue?"
"Picked up."
"So you thought you'd get married?"