She opened her eyes, looked as startled as if she had been asleep, but submissively gave the required promise.
"Think of something cheerful," he went on.
She saw that he was really distressed, and, disengaging her thoughts from herself by a quiet, intense effort, she roguishly murmured, "I will let my mind run to the conversation that you will have with this fair one—no, this plain one—when you announce your love."
Agapit blushed furiously, and hurried from the room, while Rose, as an earnest of her obedience to him, showed him, at the window, until he was out of sight, a countenance alight with gentle mischief and entire contentment of mind.
[CHAPTER X.]
A CAMPAIGN BEGUN IN BRIBERY.
"After madness acted, question asked."
Tennyson.