"Yes, and looks that way," she responded, leaning out herself, and taking
a long draught of the spring.
"Let's take a walk," he said abruptly.
"Except when you asked me to marry you--you never proposed a more
delightful thing," she responded with gayer laugh than he had heard for a
long time.
"Suppose we walk down through the park and take a look at the lake," he
suggested.
"I call that a genuine inspiration!"--losing no time in getting Karl's
things and her own.
Nothing could have pleased her more than this. It seemed beginning the
spring right.
"I can fancy we are in Europe," he said, after they had gone a little
way, and she laughed understandingly;--this seemed closer to the spirit
of the old days than they had come for a long time.
Her guiding hand was on his arm, but more as if she liked to have it
there, than as though necessary. "Your little finger could pilot me
through Hades" he said, lovingly, gratefully, as a light touch told him of
a step to go down, and again she laughed; it was very easy to laugh this
morning.
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