Orchids are only things you can visit with . '' `` Jonas sent me some dear pink rosebuds for the evening -- but -- he is n't coming himself . He said he had to lead a prayer-meeting in the slums ! I do n't believe he wanted to come . Anne , I 'm horribly afraid Jonas does n't really care anything about me . And I 'm trying to decide whether I 'll pine away and die , or go on and get my B.A. and be sensible and useful . '' `` You could n't possibly be sensible and useful , Phil , so you 'd better pine away and die , '' said Anne cruelly . `` Heartless Anne ! '' `` Silly Phil ! You know quite well that Jonas loves you . '' `` But -- he wo n't TELL me so . And I ca n't MAKE him . He LOOKS it , I 'll admit . But speak-to-me-only-with-thine-eyes is n't a really reliable reason for embroidering doilies and hemstitching tablecloths . I do n't want to begin such work until I 'm really engaged . It would be tempting Fate . '' `` Mr. Blake is afraid to ask you to marry him , Phil . He is poor and ca n't offer you a home such as you 've always had . You know that is the only reason he has n't spoken long ago . '' `` I suppose so , '' agreed Phil dolefully .
`` Well '' -- brightening up -- `` if he WO N'T ask me XXXXX marry him I 'll ask him , that 's all .
Phil about as for in speak-to-me-only-with-thine-eyes that to until with