human
That's my girl! You never look prettier to my eyes than when you are dressed like this. It's the real comrade look you have then, and I feel as if we were shoulder to shoulder, ready for anything that might come.
gpt
Just as if it weren't always that,
human
It's always great fun to go off with you unexpectedly like this, she went on presently.
gpt
It seems so long since we've done it. It's been such a busy year. Is everybody getting well to-day, that you can manage a whole day?
human
All but one, and he doesn't need me just now. I could keep busy, of course, but I got a sudden hankering for a day all alone with you in the woods; and after that idea once struck me I'd have made way for it anyhow, short of actually running away from duty.
gpt
You need it, I know. We'll just leave all care behind and remember nothing except how happy we are to be together. That never grows old, does it, Red?
human
Never! He spoke almost with solemnity, and gave her a long look as he said it, which she met with one to match it.
gpt
You dear! he murmured.
human
Len, do you know I never loved you so well as I do to-day?
gpt
I wonder why? She was smiling, and her colour, always duskily soft in her cheek, grew a shade warmer.
human
Is it the brown tweeds?
gpt
It's the brown tweeds, and the midnight-dark hair, and the beautiful black eyes, and--the lovely soul of my wife.
human
Why, Red, dear--and all this so early in the morning? How will you end if you begin like this?
gpt
I don't know--or care. Something strange looked out of his eyes for a minute.
human
I know what I want to say now and I'm saying it. So much of the time I'm too busy to make love to my wife, I'm going to do it to-day--all day. I warn you now, so you can sidetrack me if you get tired of it.
gpt
I'm very likely to, she said with a gay tenderness.
human
To have you make love to me without the chance of a telephone call to break in will be a wonderful treat.
gpt
It sure will to me.