He is quite used to my ways." The Rev.Mr.Ware drew a long comforting breath.

"Oh, I see! He went with you to--bring you home." "To blow the organ," said the girl in the dark, correctingly.

"But about that doctor; did you like him ?" "Well," Theron began, "'like' is rather a strong word for so short an acquaintance.

He talked very well; that is, fluently.

But he is so different from any other man I have come into contact with that--" "What I wanted you to say was that you hated him," put in Celia, firmly.
"I don't make a practice of saying that of anybody," returned Theron, so much at his ease again that he put an effect of gentle, smiling reproof into the words.