"
"It is too sudden, Percy," she said, lingeringly; "I must have time to
consider."
"What have you to consider?" he remonstrated.
"A great many things," she said, evasively. "You don't know how a girl
is situated. Here is papa coming to town this very morning; Jim and
Cicely have gone up to Paddington to meet him. Well, I don't know how he
might regard it. If you wanted me to leave the theatre altogether, it
would make a great difference; I do a good deal for Jim and Cicely."
"But, Katie," he said, and he took her hand in spite of her, "these are
only matters of business! Do you think I can't make all that straight?
Say yes!"--and he strove to draw her towards him, and would have kissed
her, but that she withdrew a step, with her cheeks flushing prettily
through the thin make-up of the morning.
"You must give me time, Percy," she said, with downcast eyes. "I must
know what papa says."
"What time?"
"Well--a week," she said.
"A week be it: I won't worry you beyond your patience, dear Kate," said
this infatuated young man. "But I know what you will have to say
then--to make me the happiest of human beings alive on this earth.
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