ungallant speech on record."

He flushed. "You don't mean—that night on the Sunsprite—you weren't in earnest, surely—"

"Your passionate proposal is accepted," Gloria said calmly.

Kenniston was aghast. "But I didn't propose! I mean—I do love you, and you know it, but you're an heiress, and I—"

"We'll have all the way back to Mars to argue that out," she told him. "And I have an idea you'll lose."

Kenniston had the same idea.

The End.

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