And when you're as old as I be you'll know it." I went in through the dining-room, steering clear of Dorinda, who scarcely looked up from her floor scrubbing.
"Mother," said I, entering the darkened bedroom, "I just met the Colton girl and what do you suppose she told me ?" "That she was very grateful to you for coming to her rescue the other night." "That, of course.

But she told me something else.

She said she was coming to call on you.

On YOU, Mother!" I don't know what answer I expected.

I flung the announcement like a bombshell and was ready for almost any sort of explosion at all.
"Did she ?" observed Mother, placidly.