The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-05-15
HOW SHE
EXPLAINED
MiIlicent Had a Change OF
Views.

by the way, father" said MiIlicent,
with an air of one speaking by the
merest chance, as her parent pushed
his chair back from the breakfast
table, Mr.. Downing will call on you
this evenin."
i don't want to see him. What's
he going to call on me for"
Why, you seeI think he thinks
perhaps he feels" MilIicent's forced
air of indifference vanished suddenly,
and, blushing furiously. she brought
out: He wants to talk to you about
marrying me-"
But, my dear child, after your To-
peated refusals, surely it isn't neces-
sary for me to mix up in the affair.
Can't he take his Dismissal like q gen
tleman? Does he need me to show
him the door? / should think after
what you told him the other night, &C
cording to your report to me, he would
have had enough"
Il know you might think Co." re-
Piled Millicent, avoiding her fathers
eye, but you simply can't get rid Of
that man. He actually proposed to
me again last night, and-wel, you
ZEE, father, accepted him.
"Millicent! Are you crszy?"
mo, father, I'm cot"
Didn't you tell me only two nights
ago when / asked you why he had
stopped coming here that you had sent
him away because he persisted in
making love to you against your ex-
press wishesr'
Millicent nodded.
And didn't you tell me that he had
fairly prosecuted you, followed you,
and annoyed you continually"
Millicent nodded.
And didn't you say that he was q
thought every girl he knew was in
love with him."
Millicent nodded and tried to speak,
but her father was not through.
Didn't you say that you had re-
fused him several times and that you
wished you would never see him
again? Didn't you remark that you
would not wipe your feet On him?
Wasn't that the very expression you
used? Now, answer me clearly, did
you or did you not say these things?"
Millicent met her parents stern eye
and said, family: Il did, but that was
day before yesterday"
Her father snorted. After getting
me all worked up about it you slide
out that way. wouldn't have spoken
to the fellow If had mat him after
what you told me. And told you that
l had always liked him and had
thought that he had more sense then
any of the other mel. who come to see
you. And you became quite excited
at the bare mentor of his name and
succeeded in prejudicing me thorough
ly. Now you right about face with
suddenness that makes me dizzy. What
are you going to marry him for?"
Because love him." said Millicent,
calmly.
Hear the girl! She loves him!
Was there ever such a situation be-
fore!"
II can explain If you will give me .
chance. 1t is perfectly simple Yes
terday morning his sister was here
and she began to talk about him, and
she said he had told her about me.
And she said she knew it would make
me happy to know that he wasn't
breaking his heart over my refusal
and that he had decided on Sefiection
that l never could have made him
happy, anyway. And she sail he felt
perfectly friendly to me, and that his
other feeling was all OVERHEAD en-
tirely and completely vanished.
Il had intended not to 90 to the
Browns dance last night, because l
knew that he'd be there. But l wasn't
going to have him think that he could
fan out Of love with me so easily; SO
I put on my prettiest dress and went.
And smiled at him In the sweetest
way, and dances with him, and pre-
tended that i wanted to sit out lots
OF dances with him, and all the time I
was gradually losing the big lump in
my chest that I'd had there ever since
morning. l could tell that what his
sister said about him wasn't true, and
it made me happy, and then he said
everything all over and said yes, and
that's all"
And you call that an explanation"
exclaimed her father.
Now, father, If you can't under
stand it isn't my fault OF course, you
are only a man, and you mustn't ex-
pect to understand everything. But
promise me that you'll be very nice to
him when he comes to talk with you.
and that you won't tell q soul. not
even mother, when she comes home,
that said what did night before
last"