I'll
find a way of waking him up, in case he's asleep, which I doubt. There
will be cold chicken and ham and hot coffee."
"Lovely!"
"And we shall dine with the gods. And now it is all over and done, it
_was_ funny, wasn't it?"
"Terribly funny!"--with a shade of irony. "It would have been funnier
still if the real Haggerty hadn't turned up. The patrol had arrived."
"But it didn't happen. I shall never forget this night,"--romantically.
"I should be inordinately glad to forget it completely,"--decidedly.
"Where's your romance?" I asked.
"I'd rather have it served to me between book-covers. As I grow older
my love of repose increases."
"Do you know," I began boldly, "it seems that I have known you all my
life."
"Indeed!"
"Yes. Why, I might really have known you all my life, and still not
have known you as well as I do this very minute,--and less than a dozen
hours between this and our first meeting. You are as brave as a
paladin, wise as a serpent, cool, witty--and beautiful!"
"Shall I ask the driver to let me out?" Then she laughed, a
rollicking, joyous laugh.
"What is so funny?"
"I was thinking of that coal-bin."
"Well, I didn't permit a lonely potato to frighten me," I retorted.
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