Didn't Want To Be Shielded

He took her hand gently in hia. They were afflanced, and there was uo kick coming on the score of conventionality. "I will always, " he murmured, "be at haivi to shield thee in the great struggls of ïif e. ' ' She gazed earnestly into his loving eyes. "No" Sho seemed not to be aware that he started violently upon the word. "I must iüNt. upon going to bargain sales alone. Yoa would ouly be in the wa3-. " Even as sha spoke her face kindled