All kinds and conditions and sorts
of talks that only two lovers enjoy, and for which only two lovers
can find the material.
Sometimes she thought he might be too lonely and neglected at the
log-cabin. Then she would make believe she was going to ask daddy
to let them be married right away, insisting that two rooms were
enough for them, and that she herself would do the washing and
ironing and the cooking, at which Jack would laugh over the joy of
it all, conjuring up in his mind the pattern of apron she would
wear and how pretty her bare arms would be bending over the tub,
knowing all the time that he would no more have allowed her to do
any one of these things than he would have permitted her to chop
the winter's wood.
Most of these day dreams, plots, and imaginings were duly reported
by letter to Miss Felicia to see what she thought of them all. For
the dear lady's opposition had long since broken down. In these
letters Ruth poured out her heart as she did to no one except
Jack; each missive interspersed with asides as to how dear Jack
was, and how considerate, and how it would not be a very long time
before she would soon get the other half of the dear lady's laces,
now that daddy and Jack (the boy had been given an interest in the
business) were going to make lots of money on the new work--to
all of which Miss Felicia replied that love in a garret was what
might be expected of fools, but that love in a log-cabin could
only be practised by lunatics.
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