“Talk not of men,” she said. “To me,

Diana’s priestess I would be,

And range the woods, heart-free, foot-loose,

To kill the chipmunk and the moose.”

“Ah, well!” he sighed (It is a shame,

And rather mars this graceful verse,

I cannot rhyme his beastly name),

“Ah, well! Perhaps you might do worse.

I longed for grand-sons, but”—a sigh—

“The cost of living sure is high;