I am going after
them.'
"Having known me almost since my toothless days, Dan knew he could only
wait.
"'I am getting pretty old, you know.'
"He looked at me critically and gave my age a smile.
"'I am very much in favor of marriage, and families, and such things.
I want one myself. And if I don't hurry up, I'll have to adopt it.
There's an age limit, you know.'"
"'Age limit,' he exploded.
"'I think I shall have a winter wedding, a white one, along in January.
Not in December, it might interfere with my Christmas presents.'
"'Connie--'
"'I am going to be very systematic about it. In this note-book I am
making a list of all the nice Mount Markers. I couldn't think of any
myself right offhand, so I had to resort to the directory. Now I shall
go through the list and grade them. Some are black-marked right at the
start. Those that sound reasonable, I shall try out. The one that
makes good, I shall marry. I've got to hurry, too. My vacation only
lasts a week, and I have to work on my trousseau a little. It's lots
of fun. I am perfectly fascinated with it.'
"Dan had nothing to say. He looked at me with that blankness of
incomprehension that must be maddening in a man after you are married
to him.
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