Have you your rubbers on ? And do n't you think it is too damp out there for you in that heavy dew ? Better come into the house , both of you . Walter has a cold now . '' `` Oh , we 'll be in soon , Sara , '' I said impatiently . But we did n't go in for an hour , and when we did Sara was cross , and after Walter had gone she told me I was a very silly girl to be so reckless of my health and risk getting pneumonia loitering out in the dew with a sentimental boy . I had had some vague thoughts of telling Sara all about my new happiness , for it was so great I wanted to talk it over with somebody , but I could n't after that . Oh , I wish I had a mother ! She could understand . But Sara can not . Walter and I have decided to keep our engagement a secret for a month -- just our own beautiful secret unshared by anyone . Then before he goes back to college he is going to tell Sara and ask her consent . I do n't think Sara will refuse it exactly . She really likes Walter very well . But I know she will be horrid and I just dread it . She will say I am too young and that a boy like Walter has no business to get engaged until he is through college and that we have n't known each other long enough to know anything about each other and that we are only a pair of romantic children . And after she has said all this and given a disapproving consent she will begin to train me up in the way a good housekeeper should go , and talk to me about table linen and the best way to manage a range and how to tell if a chicken is really a chicken or only an old hen . Oh , I know Sara ! She will set the teeth of my spirit on edge a dozen times a day and rub all the bloom off my dear , only , little romance with her horrible practicalities . I know one must learn about those things of course and I do want to make Walter 's home the best and dearest and most comfortable spot on earth for him and be the very best little wife and housekeeper I can be when the time comes .
But I want to dream my dreams first and Sara will wake me up so early XXXXX realities .
about before for in of off on out that to