Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1918 — TAKEN AT HER WORD. [ARTICLE]

TAKEN AT HER WORD.

He had just proposed. she was very much elated, and intended to say “Yes” eventually. But she thought she would have a little amusement by keeping him in suspense for a few minutes. So she said, In a sad voice: 'Tin afraid I can be nothing but a sister to you.” “Well, that’s all right,” he said gayly. “I thought that, since I have been going with you for a year now, It was only fair that I should give you an opportunity to marry me if you cared to. But since you don’t, I might as well confess that I’d father be a. brother than a husband myself.”