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 Would what?

Feel that way if I went away.

I'd follow you.

She squeezed his hand.

After a moment she said, I've been walking in this Park for many months. When I get through my work at the library it's what I always want to do first. I think of it as my Park, and now I've led you into it.

We're just two babes in the woods, he exclaimed. Let's roll in the leaves and cover ourselves up and get lost together for ever.

I'd adore it, Mary responded. What would we eat?

Squirrels and sparrows.

Oh, not those cunning squirrels.

Nuts.

I don't believe there's a nut-bearing tree in the Park. I've never seen one.

Well, we'll have our meals sent in from Flo's!

That's better. . . and use the leaves for a tablecloth!

And blankets!

Mary sighed. I wish life were as simple as all that! Why isn't it?

It's wonderful anyway, Mary.

It's wonderful now.

Baby duck! It'll be even more wonderful later, after we are married. He began to sing: