Passaic City record., 1892-12-24

structivcly, alone, but with your servants
continually in the room.
Miss Waring--No; ! will not discuss
it. The subject would assume entirely
too personal tone at the present mo-
ment. Some other time, perhaps; but
not now.
Gray-Then / am not to be invited to
dinner2
Miss Waring-Nol
Gray-What am to do2 It's too late
to 90 back to Woodlands.
Miss Waring (smiling)-I might send
you out slice of pudding.
Gray--Did you really make a pud-
dingg
Miss Waring-I really did.
Gray-What nice little housewife
YOU would make! miss Waring be-
comes intensely occupied in most COM
plicated piece of darning. Gray suddenly
notices the nature of her work). Darn
ing, too, by Jovel What treasure you
will be to somebody, Miss Waringl
Miss Waring with slight contraction
of the eyebrows) Don't you think the
conversation is becoming very personals
Gray-Yes.
Miss Waring-Then don't you think
we had better change the subje:ta
Gray--On the contrary find the sub.
ject most interesting.
Miss Waring-You are incorrigible.
Gray-Then why try to correct met
why not let me tell you what / think of
you.
Miss Waring (resignedly)-If it gives
you any pleasure.
Gray-Why not let me tell you that
think you true, honest, and, as / said
before. old. fashioned? That believe
you to be careful, industrious and
good managera-in short, everything
that the copy-bocks say woman should
be9 And, notwithstanding that you
possess all those virtues which are ordi-
narily stigmatized as unattractive, that
find you charminga Why not let me
tell you that-that-I love you2
Miss Waring-Mr. Gray! (She drops
her work into her lap and gazes at him
half-frightened, half-pleased and wholly
astor1shed.)
Gray (who is looking at the toe of his
boot, which he fiicks with his crop,
while he adds deliberately)-Yes, that
Il love you.
Miss Waring Cooking more astonished
and slightly amused)-Are you quite
sure about It'll
Gray (innocently)--Quite sure-(then
looking up ana noting her mocked ex-
pression)--you don't believe me!
Miss Waring-Hardly!
-Why-why-you must believe
mel / do love you'll Indeed, indeed
dol Oh, tell me how can prove ita
(Iiss Waring slightly shrugs her shout
ders.) Have not ridden over here on
an average of twice week for the last
three months2
Miss Waring-Yes.
Gray-Have not staid and staid and
staid?
Miss Warlng-Yes.
Gray Have I not been unconscion-
ably dulla
Miss Waring with enthusiesm) -Oh,
yes!
Gray-Well2
Miss Waring-And is that your idea
of love? To ride over to see the beloved
object whenever there is nowhere else to
go. Then to hang about the place until
it is time TO go home, in lazy sort of
way, talking when yoll are so inclined,
and more often not opening your lips for
half-hours together. Sometimes that
kind of behavior might not be altogether
Objectionable in friend, but is hardly
the sort of thing that I should expect
from-my lover.
Gray (doggedly, as he rises)-Evi-
IDENTIFY I do not know how to show it;
but love you more than anything else
in the world. Won't you believe mes
Miss Waring Qooks at him more kind
ly; then, with CLEAN of mischief in her
eye, as she also rises as if to bid him
good -by) -"The proof of the pudding,
Mr.. Gray, is in
Gray-The eating" ct would be
quite impossible, in stage direction, to
explain how it oil happened; but, as he
had finished the proverb, John Gray held
Jane Waring in his arms, and the latter
was submitting to being kissed by him
as if she had been accustomed to nothing
else from her childhood up Puck.
Thara's NOthinp Like T,path0r