allow you to ask me if my answer were not yes?"

"So that is the reason you always ran away from me, years ago, so
that I never had a chance to ask you?"

"Of course," said Eudora. "No woman of my family ever allows a
declaration which she does not intend to accept. I was always
taught that by my mother."

Then a small but insistent cry rent the air. "The baby is
awake!" cried Eudora, and ran, or, rather, paced swiftly--Eudora
had been taught never to run--and Lawton followed. It was he who
finally quieted the child, holding the little thing in his arms.

But the baby, before that, cried so long and lustily that all the
women in the Glynn house opposite were on the alert, and also
some of the friends who were calling there. Abby Simson was one.

"Harry Lawton has been there over an hour now," said Abby, while
the wailing continued, "and I know as well as I want to that
there will be a wedding."

"I wonder he doesn't object to that adopted baby," said Julia
Esterbrook.

"I know one thing," said Abby Simson. "It must be a boy baby, it
hollers so."