And then I called father and told him. He was very grave, and said to Johnny, "It depends on you; if you can show yourself a different sort of man and wipe out the record you have made for yourself, well, then, I suppose she will be of age, and it will be your own affair--but I hope she will forget you." That was absurd!
So I kissed Johnny good-by--though father didn"t like that at all--for it would help to make the two years shorter.
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