“Sweetheart,” he said, anxiously.

“Larry, you told a lie.”

“Many of ’em, darlin’. Which one?”

“You said I was going to marry you.”

“Aren’t you, crickety-Cricket?”—anxiously.

“I haven’t decided—yet.”

“But won’t ye decide, dearie?”

“I may—when I’m properly asked.”

“What is properly, Mavourneen?”

“I don’t know. I’ve never been proposed to before, except by Jean Jacques Petard.”