208 The Little Minister

“No, you stupid,” she said, beaming on him -
in her most delightful manner, “to yourself!”

She gave him both her hands impetuously,
and he did not let them go until she added:

“JT am so glad that you are reasonable at
last. Men are so much more unreasonable than
women, don’t you think?”

“‘Perhaps we are,” Gavin said, diplomatically.

“Of course you are. Why, every one knows
that. Well, I forgive you; only remember, you
have admitted that it was all your fault?”

She was pointing her finger at him like a
schoolmistress, and Gavin hastened to answer:

“You were not to blame at all.”

“I like to hear you say that,” explained the
representative of the more reasonable sex, “ be-
cause it was really all my fault.”

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“ Yes, it was; but of course I could not say so
until you had asked my pardon. You must
understand that?”

The representative of the less reasonable sex
could not understand it, but he agreed recklessly,
and it seemed so plain to the woman that she
continued, confidentially :

“I pretended that I did not want to make it
up, but I did.”

“Did you?” asked Gavin, elated.

““Yes, but nothing could have induced me to
make the first advance. You see why?”

“Because I was so unreasonable?” asked
Gavin, doubtfully.

“Yes, and nasty. You admit you were
nasty?”