At first she seemed a trifle distant, and I thought her haughty; but, afterward, when her strangeness and constraint had worn away, she was simple and unaffected and delightful.

And she is very pretty, isn't she." "Yes." "She told me a great deal about herself.

She has been through Vassar and has traveled a great deal.

This is the first summer since her graduation which she has not spent abroad.

She and I talked of Rome and Florence.
I--I told her of the month I spent in Italy when you were a baby, Roscoe." "You did not tell her anything more, Mother?
Anything she should not know ?" "Boy!" reproachfully.
"Pardon me, Mother.