Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-13


structively, 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-Iheu I am not to be invited to
dinnerl
Miss Waring-No!
Gray-What am to dol 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 pud-
ding!
Miss Waring-I really did.
Gray-Wnat a nice little housewife
YOU would make! Miss Wariny be-
comes intensely occupied in a mos. 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 Warlug-Theu don't you think
we had better change the sIbje,ti
Gray-On the contrary l find the sub
ject mos: interesting.
Miss Waring-You are incorrigible.
Gray-Then why try to correct me
Why not let me tell you what l think OF
you.
Miss Waring (rcsignedly)-It it gives
you any pleasure.
Gray-Why not let me tell you thai
think you true, honest, aud, as | sllc
before. old fashionedl That believe
YOU to be careful, industrious and a
good managerl-in short, everything
that the copy-bocks say woman should
bel And, notwithstanding that yov
pcssess all those virtues which are ordi-
narily s.igmatized as unattractive, that
I fn6 you charmingl Why not let me
tell YOU that-that-I love your
Mrs Waring-Mr. Grayi (She drops
her WORK into her lap and gazes at him
half.frightenea, half-pleased and wholly
astorished.)
Gray (who is looking at the toe OF his
boot, which he hicks with his crop
while be adds deliberately)-Yes, tha
Il love you.
Mss Waring Cooking more astonished
and slightly amused)-Are you quite
sure about it
Gray (inuocentlO--Quite sare-(then
looking up and noting her Knocked ex'
prcssion)--you don't believe mel
Mss Waring-Hardly!
-Wny-why-yOu must believe
mel do love you'll Indeed, indeed
do Oh, tell me how l can prove It'll
t3Iss Waring slightly shrugs her shout
ders.) Have not ridden over here on
an a7erase of twice a week for the last
three monthsl
Miss Waring-Yes.
Gray-Have l not staid aud staid anC
staid2
Miss Wsrlng-Yes.
Gray Have l not been uucOnscion-
ably dulll
Miss Waring with enthusiu'm) On
yes!
Gray-Welll
Miss Waring-Aud is that your ide'
Of lovel To ride over to see the beloved
object whenever there is nowhere else to
20. Then to hang about the place until
it is time 10 go home, in a lazy sort oi
way, talking when yoI are so inclined,
aud more often not opening your lips for
half.hours together, Sometimes thai
kind of behavior might not be altogether
Objectionable in friend, but is hardly
the sort of thing that | should expect
from-my lover.
Gray (doggedly, as he rises)-Evi
IDENTIFY do not know hos to show it
but love you more than anything els'
in the world. Won't you believe met
Miss wariug Qooks at him more kind
ly; then, with a 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 eatinglr Ut would be
quite impossible, in a stage direction, to
explain how it all happened; but, as h'
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.
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