Now this was immensely stimulating to the bashful Seffy.
"I like you," he said—"ever since we was babies."
"Sef—I don't believe you. Or you wouldn't waste your time so—about Sam Pritz!"
"Er—Sally—where you going to to-night?" Seffy meant to prove himself.
And Sally answered, with a little fright at the sudden aggressiveness she had procured.
"Nowheres that I know of."
"Well—may I set up with you?"
The pea-green sunbonnet could not conceal the utter amazement and then the radiance which shot into Sally's face.
"Set—up—with—me!"
"Yes!" said Seffy, almost savagely. "That's what I said."