No, I'm not! You may be as decent as you please about it, Billy, said Susan with scarlet cheeks, "but--a thing like that will keep me from ever marrying, you know! Well. So I'm really going to work, right here and now. Mrs. Carroll says that service is the secret of happiness, I'm going to try it. Life is pretty short, anyway, -- doesn't a time like this make it seem so!--and I don't know that it makes very much difference whether one's happy or not!"