Halliday, signing his name and everything. It wasn't a
bit nice of you."
"Now do I look like a forger?" he wanted to know with innocence
on his cherubic face.
"Anyway you know it was mean. Mr. Halliday wouldn't do such a
thing. You take your arm down and keep it where it belongs, Mr.
McWilliams."
"That ain't my name, Nora, darling, and I'd like to know where my
arm belongs if it isn't round the prettiest girl in Wyoming.
What's the use of being engaged if--"
"I'm not sure I'm going to stay engaged to you," announced the
young woman coolly, walking at the opposite edge of the path from
him.
"Now that ain't any way to talk "
"You needn't lecture me. I'm not your wife and I don't think I'm
going to be," cut in Nora, whose temper was ruffled on account of
having had to wait for him as well as for other reasons.
"Y'u surely wouldn't make me sue y'u for breach of promise, would
y'u?" he demanded, with a burlesque of anxiety that was the final
straw.
Nora turned on her heel and headed for the house.
"Now don't y'u get mad at me, honey. I was only joking," he
explained as he pursued her.
"You think you can laugh at me all you please. I'll show you that
you can't," she informed him icily.
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