"Now, how COULD we ever keep step?" she said, pausing in front of
him and looking up into his face.
"I'm afraid you're right, Patty," and Kenneth looked at her with
serious eyes. "But I WANT you so!" and he held out his arms.
"Nay, nay, Pauline," and Patty danced away again. "Who gets me, I
think, will have to swoop down in an aeroplane, and grabble me all
up and fly away with me!"
"Where do they keep aeroplanes for sale?" inquired Kenneth, looking
at her meditatively.
"You dear old Ken!" and Patty danced up to him again and laid her
hand on his arm. "Isn't that just exactly like you! You'd go right
off and buy an airship, I believe, and try to come swooping after
me!"
"Indeed I would, if it were practicable and possible."
"Yes, that's your motto: practical and possible. But you see, Mr.
Ken, I like the impractical and the impossible."
"Supposing, then, that I take up those things as a serious study?"
"Oh, yes, a SERIOUS study! Is everything serious with you?"
"My love for you is very serious, Patty."
But Patty was not willing to treat it so. "That's the trouble," she
said; "now if your love for me were frivolous----"
"Then it wouldn't be worth having, Patty.
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