Man and Maid

Alathea resents every present, those for the body because they suggest

my possession of her, those for the mind because she feels no friendship

for me at all!

Well, well!

What will she do I wonder during the fortnight of our engagement? I feel

that I can afford to wait with patience and certainty. But the thought

that I do not even know my fiancée's address, and that she is

resentful and defiant, and rebellious at everything, and yet intends to

marry me, on the seventh of November, is really almost humorous!

And now it behooves me to put my house in order, and map out exactly

what I mean to do!