Sure I promise. Always will
I keep you with me, darling, always, always, so help me, always."
Along the road to Newton Heights Spring and her firstlings crept out
tenderly. Even close up to the rim of the oiled highway itself, an
occasional colony of wood violets dared to show their heads for the
brief moment before they suffocated. The threat of rain still lay on the
air, but the Sunday rank and file of motors threw back tops, lowered
windshields, and turned shining noses toward the greening fields.
In the red-leather tonneau, with her little face wind-blown and bared to
the kiss in the air, Sadie Barnet turned to her companion and peered
under the visor of his checked cap and up into his small inset eyes.
"Is--is that the house up on the hill there, Jerry?"
"Not yet. It's right around the next bend."
"Gee! My--my hands are like ice, I--I'm that nervous."
"Lemme feel."
"No."
"That's a swell way to treat a fellow who's promised to marry you."
"You--you must excuse me to-day, Jerry. Honest, without a wink of
sleep last night--you must excuse me to-day. I--I'm so upset with poor
Dee Dee, and on top of that so nervous about--your little girl and the
house and everything.
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