The things we do!

"
"You are easily satisfied if you call that good," laughingly returned
Mary. "I can be ever so much better than that if I try."
"Let me see you try," said Brandon.
"Why, I'm trying now," answered Mary with a distracting little pout.
"Don't you know genuine out-and-out goodness when you see it? I'm
doing my very best now. Can't you tell?"
"Yes, I think I recognize it; but--but--be bad again."
"No, I won't! I will not be bad even to please you; I have determined
not to be bad and I will not--not even to be good. This," placing her
hand over her heart, "is just full of 'good' to-day," and her lips
parted as she laughed at her own pleasantry.
"I am afraid you had better be bad--I give you fair warning," said
Brandon huskily. He felt her eyes upon him all the time, and his
strength and good resolves were oozing out like wine from an
ill-coppered cask. After a short silence Mary continued, regardless of
the warning:
"But the position is reversed with us; at first I was unkind to you,
and you were kind to me, but now I am kind to you and you are unkind
to me.


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