“Then suppose you spend all your time with me.”
“Oh, may I!” she asked, looking up delightedly into his face.
“Every moment from the time you are dressed in the morning till you retire at night. That is, if you wish it, and can contrive to learn your lessons by my side in the hours when I am indoors. In that case you may go with me when and wherever I go.”
“Oh, how nice, dear papa!” she cried, clapping her hands and dancing about in her delight.
“Yes,” he said, sitting down and taking her in his arms to pet and fondle her. “I think we shall be very happy together even without any one to help us enjoy ourselves. We were in former days, were we not, darling?”
“Yes, indeed, papa! when we first came to this sweet home, and each of us was all the other had. Let us pretend we’ve gone back to those old times just for a little while. Wouldn’t it be a nice variety?”
“It seemed a very nice variety then, and you may pretend it as strongly as you please,” he said, with an amused, indulgent smile.
THE END.
Transcriber’s Note
Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words at line endings or page breaks were removed. Misspelled words were not corrected. A few quotation marks and apostrophes were adjusted to current usage.