"Oh! I forgot! I want to show you something." From her purse she
drew a slender ring of plain gold and passed it around. "My
mother's wedding ring. I've worn it around my neck always, like a
locket. I cried for it so in the orphan asylum that the matron
gave it back for me to wear. And now, just to think, after next
Tuesday I'll be wearing it on my finger. Look, Billy, see the
engraving on the inside."

"C to D, 1879," he read.

"Carlton to Daisy--Carlton was my father's first name. And now,
Billy, you've got to get it engraved for you and me."

Mary was all eagerness and delight.

"Oh, it's fine," she cried. "W to S, 1907."

Billy considered a moment.

"No, that wouldn't be right, because I'm not giving it to Saxon."

"I'll tell you what," Saxon said. "W and S."

"Nope." Billy shook his head. "S and W, because you come first
with me."

"If I come first with you, you come first with us. Billy, dear, I
insist on W and S."