"Oh, I think you are mistaken," replied her lover. "To me it is the most
beautiful city in the world."

"Do you really mean that?" she said, looking at him with surprise.

"Yes, I do. It is the first city through which I have walked with the
lady who is to be my wife."

"Oh, indeed," remarked the lady who was to be his wife, "and have you
never walked with----"

"Now, see here," said Morris, "that subject is barred out. We left all
those allusions on the steamer. I say I am walking now with the lady
who _is_ to be my wife. I think that statement of the case is perfectly
correct, is it not?"

"I believe it is rather more accurate than the average statement of the
average American."

"Now, Katherine," he said, "do you know what information I have been
looking up since I have been in Liverpool?"

"I haven't the slightest idea," she said. "Property?"

"No, not property."

"Looking after your baggage, probably?"

"Well, I think you have got it this time. I _was_ looking after my