Molly Brown's College Friends

from the sleepy-hollow chair. His stern face w

Can't you

t know you were still here," and

e door first and with his back ag

and am going

was filled with a righteous indignation agai

st tell you what a

ot necessa

conic way of putting things

not be so cruel as to go off without letting me explain-I have no excuse-there could be none for my

rway." Nance was very pale and trembling. Two years of suffering cou

it down and le

co

in a small isolated sewing rocker. Andy accepted the amendment and placed

it the very day after that awful row we had, the ver

d n

hand while I am doing it," but Nance drew Molly's knitting from a bag hung on the back of the chair and declared her hands were ot

e and you were here at Wellington, that you were the only girl in the world for me. I had a kind of notion in my fool brain that I was going to be the only man

er's phy

when your father died I thought you would pick right up and come to me-I knew nothing of your mother's determination to stay with you-n

ged and tore! I felt if you could r

way again-I've learned my lesson. Ca

ater because you were so busy with your husband, I wanted to die that minute. Of course I thought it was Flint. How coul

swer was very low

aying any more," he sprang to his

you then at all

orgive me?" and poor Andy sank on his

his sandy head to her bosom with one hand and patte

nd take off that coat and let me dry it! And your shirt is damp, too! My

en melting were too much for him. The coat was hung by the fire to

u and ask you to forgive me," declared Nance

rom her and possessed him

ou didn't know how they did hurt, but I did, and I should not have done the same

y whimsically, pressing one of

marry me; I guess he

times Andy dropped into

sleeves why I didn't marry Dr. Flint," sa

l put on

uldn't tell a man in

y n

p shoulder. Why don't you do as I told you and dry

you tell me why you di

your life. It was-it was because-because he didn't have sandy hair and a bad temper," and Nance was

master of the house, but Molly was in ambush ready to catch him to keep him o

t is all right for such a warm

Green as he followed his wife back to t

Nance are

ee him. Won't he be here to tea

on English, but you have no practical sense. Don't you know you might break in ju

aking up: the Allies a

u know I mean

g up? If it is a row

room until they come out, unl

r your dead one," and the professor pulled his wife down on the sofa by him, "espe

Molly she guard that do' like a cat do a mouse hole. Cose Miss Nance ain't got no maw to futh

wife," complained Edwin as he stirred his tea with his arm around his wife, a combin

Fontainebleau to Barbizon when they were simply dying

my account, I'll pass on the favor to other lovers and stay out of m

Mildred had righted matters, telling Andy just e

y ecstatically. A romance was dear to her soul and being happily marrie

ode extreme calamity or extreme bliss. If it continues much longer I think it is my duty as a hou

I had better go in and as

ing chairs and rattling the hat rack and calling out shrilly to the amused husband following her. Strange to say, she could not remember on which side

Andy was holding his coat close to the

Molly's conscience did hurt her for dragging Kizzie in and she gave the girl a long coveted blue hat that she had meant to keep for second best, feeling that it mig

efore one realizes,"

rom the p

r. I'll get you Edwin's smoking jacket and have your coat dried. You must s

he invitation with alacrity. Molly called up Mrs.

mething to tell me. From my back window I saw Nance with the perambulator full of babies on her way to the lake and I sent Andy off for a walk, first putting a flea in his ear by suggesting that the lake was getting sha

iver "with a smile on her lip but a tear in her eye." It is all very well for a mother to be unselfish

im of what Mrs. McLean had said; but that young father went off into such shouts of