“I thought you remarked the other day that you had money enough, and was tired of travelling,” said Lavinia, with a slightly mischievous look from one corner of her eye.
“That depends upon my company while travelling,” replied the General.
“You might not find my company very agreeable.”
“I would be glad to risk it.”
“Well, perhaps Mr. Barnum would engage you, if you asked him,” said Lavinia.
“Would you really like to have me go?” asked the General, quietly insinuating his arm around her waist, but hardly close enough to touch her.
“Of course I would,” was the reply.
The little General’s arm clasped the waist closer as he turned his face nearer to hers, and said:
“Don’t you think it would be pleasanter if we went as man and wife?”
The little fairy quickly disengaged his arm, and remarked that the General was a funny fellow to joke in that way.