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"You can't marry both of us," he almost shouted. "And it isn't the custom... what... what Billy said?" "No, it isn't the custom. Now, Loretta, will you marry me?" "Don't be angry with me," she pouted demurely. He gathered her into his arms and kissed her.
She bore it like a Spartan sooner than lose the amusement of his simplicity and enormous strength, so drolly and unnecessarily exerted. It cost her a little struggle not to laugh right out, but she turned her head away from him a moment and was quit for a spasm. Then she came round with a face all candor. "Thank you, Mr. Dodd," said she, demurely; and her eyes danced in her head.
Why not see the world? There were ladies aboard, and they flirted with the stranger because he was young and already famous, and more than average good-looking. They flirted demurely, and they flirted fiercely, and they flirted in all the ways which are known to women; but for once in feminine experience they met a man who was proof against all their charms, charmed they never so wisely.
Nevertheless, the young Studdifords, upon their return to San Francisco, entered heartily upon the social joys of the hour. Barbara had been only waiting their arrival to demurely announce her engagement, and Julia's delight immediately took the form of dinners and theatre parties for the handsome Miss Toland and her fiance.
She had to be tactful because she wished to tell the story without betraying the fact that she had been with Frank. But she might have saved herself the trouble, because when she was halfway through the narrative he interrupted her. "I gather you were not by yourself," he grumbled. "Master Frank was somewhere handy, I suppose?" She laughed. "I met him quite by accident," she said demurely.
An irrepressible glimmer of fun came into Rhoda's dark eyes. "Yes, into Essex," she said demurely. "They have all gone into the country now, haven't they? How fortunate it was that Miss Merivale heard me mention you, Miss Sampson! She noticed the name at once. It is quite certain, isn't it, that you are related to her through her sister's marriage?"
So long as she took him in as a partner of her gayety she might make as much fun of him as she pleased. But the owlish dignity of his age would not let him drop the subject without further explanation. "It's all right for yore dad to much you. I reckon a girl kinder runs to kisses an' such doggoned foolishness. But a man's different. He don't go in for it." "Oh, doesn't he?" asked Polly demurely.
He touched his cap, and they stood watching the car go down the High Street. Then she turned to Vane. "You'd better see about your letters," she said demurely. "And then we might go over the Castle. There is a most wonderful collection of oleographic paleographs brought over by the Americans when they discovered England. . . ." "In one second," threatened Vane, "I shall kiss you.
Sandys remaining behind a moment to to put something in his pocket. Mr. McLean gave them a long chase, walking demurely when lovers were in sight, but at other times doubling, jumping, even standing on eminences and crowing insultingly, like a cock, and not until he had only breath left to chuckle did the stout man vanish from the Den.
On the way over she said to him: "I have about decided to go down to Velvet Springs for the rest of the month. Don't you think it is getting rather crowded here?" "I have been pretty well satisfied," he replied, in an injured tone. "I don't see why you should want to leave here." "Why should I stay if I am tired of the place?" she asked demurely, casting a roguish glance at his sombre face.
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