"
"Gracious, Nan, how experienced you are! But I don't think I shall
accept anybody until he kneels to me. But don't tell anybody that,
for I don't want them all doing it on purpose."
"Patty," and Nan spoke seriously, "it's all very well for you to
rattle on like this, but you mustn't treat Ken's proposal lightly.
He's a splendid man and he's terribly in love with you----"
"Wait a minute, Nan," and Patty was quite as earnest as the other.
"Ken isn't TERRIBLY in love with me. I'd like it better if he were.
He's deeply in love, even earnestly,--almost solemnly, but----"
"That's the best sort, Patty. Remember, dear, flirtation is all very
well; but in the man you marry you want those qualities you've just
mentioned."
"Oh, Nan, don't you be serious, too! Ken's seriousness almost
finished me. And I suppose father will take the same tack! Oh, I
don't want to be grown-up,--I think it's HORRID!"
Nan looked sympathetically at Patty.
"I suppose, right here," Patty went on, "I ought to burst into
tears. Don't girls always cry over their first proposal? But, Nan, I
feel more like giggling. I can't help it. It seems so ridiculous for
Kenneth and me to go through that scene we had last evening.
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