Then she'll know
what it is to wed a romantical man."
"I hope you'll find it as easy as you think for," answered Jimmy, "but you
can't take nothing for granted with a maiden girl. However, as you wish it
and I wish it, so it's got to be. We've brought her up, and her future
lies with us."
"And me," added Bassett, and then the boat touched and he was across.
Christie got her invite to tea that evening and agreed to go. Her aunt had
given her an inkling of what was coming; but she hadn't given her aunt an
inkling of what had already come, though she might have, and when Polly
Fox told her that William wanted her on a very delicate errand, and she
must put on her best and look her best, Christie said nothing of the big
matter in her own mind. For she very well knew that the Saturday before
she went to tea at Mr. Bassett's big red house in the plum orchards, she
was promised for a walk to Edmund Master's, and she had a certain belief
that before that walk was done Master Teddy would ask her a vital
question.
He came, and they went along beside the river, where the wild cherry's
leaves fell blood red on the water, and where the hanging woods flamed in
afternoon sunshine and made a brave glow. For Dart at autumn time is a
fine sight, and the beauty of the scene and the blue of the distant, clear
and still beyond all that crimson and gold, tuned Christie to a melting
mood.
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