” “But didn’t Alice want to marry Doctor Ralph?” “Oh, ssh, Vee!” said her mother, with an evasion as patent as an advertisement board. McClintock wrote me about you; but all I needed was the sight of your face as it was a moment gone. Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as preoccupied with them. "Given a chance, I can make bread and butter. But I am not indisposed to gratify you. "Who took it thence?" "Thames Darrell; the boy at your side. ” She turned abruptly at right angles to the path they followed. How clever she was, to fool everybody so easily! Not yet had any one suspected the truth: that she was, in a certain worldly sense, only four weeks old, that her every act had been written down on paper beforehand, and that her success lay in rigidly observing the rules which she herself had drafted to govern her conduct. The music took hold of her slowly as her eyes wandered from the indistinct still ranks of the audience to the little busy orchestra with its quivering violins, its methodical movements of brown and silver instruments, its brightly lit scores and shaded lights. What gave the puzzling twist to an ordinary situation was her manner: she was guileless. He thought, too, of the fretful invalid who lay in the next room to his, whose money had created his business and made his position in the world. "A hell of a muddle! But all the talk in the world can't undo it.
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