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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

said, as if her habitual indifference alone to dress had kept back so important a subject till now.

'Why, that blue dress you wore last week.'

'Doesn't set well round the neck. I couldn't wear that.'

'But I sha'n't care.'

'No, you won't mind.'

'Well, then it's all right. Because you only care how you look to me, do you, dear? I only dress for you, that's certain.'

'Yes, but you see I couldn't appear in it again very well.'

'Any strange gentleman you may meet in your journey might notice the set of it, I suppose. Fancy, men in love don't think so much about how they appear to other women.' It is difficult to say whether a tone of playful banter or of gentle reproach prevailed in the speech.

'Well then, Dick,' she said, with good-

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