Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII QUARRELLING with the man you have promised to marry is bad business at best; when the object of that quarrel is a man who has no time for pretty ladies, the thing becomes an absurdity. You sleep on it and wake with the taste of regret on your lips. Chloe quarrelled, Chloe slept, and seven hours later Chloe woke to the shrill clamor of the telephone just outside her door. "Is it for me, chere p'tite?" she called quickly, and then relaxed and waited, dark hair flowing over her pillow, dark eyes thoughtful. From the hall her mother's voice replied to her. Mrs. Malone had never lost the soft Gallic cadences of her youth. "Chloe, it is Dan." "So I suppose," said Chloe grimly to herself. She got out of bed, slipped her feet into sandals, drew on a faded pink kimono that had once been vivid, and went out of the room. Her face was unsmiling when she picked up the receiver, but with the first word that sang against her ear she flushed and softened. "Sorry?" said Dan Kinloch at the other end of the wire. "You're sorry?" she repeated incredulously. "No, you are. I knew you would be." "Oh! Yes, I am. Is that what you wanted?" "To begin with. You're still going to marry me, aren't you?" "Don't be absurd." "Even if I don't do things myself and can't understand a man who does?" "Please, Dan--" "Even if I am lazy and can't understand a man who works?" "It's perfectly true, but I had no right to say it to you." "Even if I do put you before everything else, and it's the wrong place for you? Cunnin' Thing, that was an awful speech you made me last night!" "I told you I was sorry." "Still love me?" "Do you think I'm going to say so over the telephone?" i i "I love you, Miss Malone." "Well, it's very nice of you if you do," said Chloe, the...