"
"Do you really mean it, Dot?"
"Of course I do. Should I propose it if I didn't?"
"Well, this is the first proposal I've ever had, and I believe it is
customary to say on those occasions that it is so sudden, or so
unexpected, and time is required for consideration."
"How soon can you make up your mind, Kate?"
"Oh, my mind's already made up. I'm going to jump at your offer, but I
think it more ladylike to pretend a mild reluctance. What are you
going to do, Dorothy?"
"I don't know. I've settled on only one thing. I intend to build a
little stone and tile church, very quaint and old-fashioned, if I get
the right kind of architect to draw a plan for it, and this church is
to be situated in Haverstock."
"Where's Haverstock?"
"It is a village near the Hudson River, on the plain that stretches
toward the Catskills."
"It was there you lived with your father, was it not?"
"Yes, and my church is to be called the Dr. Amhurst Memorial Church."
"And do you propose to live at Haverstock?"
"I was thinking of that."
"Wouldn't it be just a little dull?"
"Yes, I suppose it is, but it seems to me a suitable place where two
young women may meditate on what they are going to do with their
lives."
"Yes, that's an important question for the two. I say, Dorothy, let's
take the other side of the river, and enter Vassar College. Then we
should at least have some fun, and there would be some reasonably
well-educated people to speak to.
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