"
"Good gracious, Patty! Kenneth?"
"None other!" And Patty waved her hand dramatically.
"Naturally, I'm not overcome with amazement, as he spoke to Fred
about it first. Kenneth always has good manners. Well, and what did
you say, Patty?"
Patty eyed Nan, provokingly. "What do you think, Nancy?"
"Honestly, Patty, I haven't the slightest idea. Ken is splendid, I
think,--but----"
"But what, Nan?" And Patty looked deeply interested.
"First, what did you say?"
"I won't tell you, until you tell me what you meant by 'but.'"
"Why, I only meant that Kenneth is,--well he's a dear and all that,
but he's so----"
"Oh, fiddlesticks, Nan, say it out! Dull, prosaic, old-fogy, poky,
slow."
"Patty, Patty! those words are too strong! Ken isn't all those
things! He's only,--just a little bit----"
"Just a day and a half behind the times. Or else I'm a day and a
half ahead of them. Well, Nan, that's what I told him."
"What! that he was dull and old-fogy?"
"Not exactly those terms; but in a few well-chosen words I gave him
that impression, or tried to. By the way, Nan, I danced all round
the room while he was proposing. Was that correct?"
"Patty, stop your nonsense! Will you never be grown-up? You shall
not make fun of Kenneth.
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