And if her father and mother are like Miss Mabel, you are very wrong.

I like her very much." "You would try to like any one, Mother." "I did not have to try to like her.

And I was a little prejudiced, too, at first.

She was so wealthy, and an only child; I feared she might be conceited and spoiled.

But she isn't." "Not conceited! Humph!" "No, not really.