HE--Keep still a moment. Yes, I can. One, two, three----

SHE--Oh, you tease! Such nonsense!

HE--It must be my own then, beating for you.

SHE--You're not nervous, are you?

HE--Of course I am. Am I not going to get the best, sweetest, prettiest,

dearest, most lovable girl in the world for a wife? Tomorrow at high

noon seems a long way off, doesn't it?

SHE--Oh! Carroll, we won't need a 'phone then, will we?

HE--It has been a dear old two-party line, though, hasn't it?

SHE--It knows an awful lot of our secrets. I wonder how much the

exchange girl has heard?

HE--Oh! I guess she got tired of us long ago.

SHE--Then she won't be listening if I send you a kiss over the wire.

Um--m--m--m--did you get it?

HE--I'll give it back with interest tomorrow.

SHE--Everything's tomorrow, isn't it?

HE--There's the clock striking midnight. It's today now, and our wedding

day.

SHE--Oh, Carroll!

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