Come out of the kitchen! A romance . CHEN I his vicinity. But I did not know you knew MissRevelly. Yet I do. And when I was describing her — It was as if I saw her before me. I am sorry I said anything about a friendof yours, sir. I had supposed she was quite astranger to you. Sometimes it seems to me, too, as if she werea stranger, Crane answered. Each time I seeher, Jane-Ellen, she seems to me so lovely andwonderful and miraculous that it is as if I saw herfor the first time. Sometimes when I am awayfrom her it seems to me quite ridiailous to believethat such a creature exists in this rather
Come out of the kitchen! A romance . CHEN I his vicinity. But I did not know you knew MissRevelly. Yet I do. And when I was describing her — It was as if I saw her before me. I am sorry I said anything about a friendof yours, sir. I had supposed she was quite astranger to you. Sometimes it seems to me, too, as if she werea stranger, Crane answered. Each time I seeher, Jane-Ellen, she seems to me so lovely andwonderful and miraculous that it is as if I saw herfor the first time. Sometimes when I am awayfrom her it seems to me quite ridiailous to believethat such a creature exists in this rather tiresdmeold world, and I feel like rushing back from wher-ever I am to assure myself that she is nt just acreation of my own passionate desire. In thissense, I think she will always be a stranger, al-ways be a surprise to me even if I should havethe great felicity of spending the rest of my dayswith her. Does it bore you, Jane-Ellen, to hearme talking this way about my own feelings ? Jane-Ellen did not answer; indeed something238. And there was no truth in it ? COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN! seemed to suggest that she could not speak, but sheshook her head and Burton went on. So you see why it distressed me to hear fromso good an authority as yourself that she had al-ready engaged herself three times. It is not thatI am of a jealous nature, Jane-EIIen, but whertI ask her to be my wife, if she should say yes,I should want to feel sure that that meant — Oh, Mr. Crane! said Jane-Ellen, I saidthat to make Mr. Reed angry. And there was no truth in it? There was a pause. Jane-Ellen looked downand wriggled her shoulders a little. Well, she admitted, there was some truthin it. They were not exactly engagements. Wethink in this part of the world that there s some-thing almost too harsh in a flat no — oh! the truthis, she added, suddenly changing her tone, thatgirls dont know what they re doing until they findthat they have fallen in love themselves. And do you think by any chance that
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