The young lady said she was too hungry to talk and I was so confounded with the strangeness of the whole affair that I was glad to be silent.

Sitting opposite me, eating Dorinda's doughnuts and apple puffs and the fish that I--_I_ had cooked, was "Big Jim" Colton's daughter, the automobile girl, the heiress, the "incarnation of snobbery," the young lady whose father I had bidden go to the devil and to whom, in company with the rest of the family, I had many times mentally extended the same invitation.

And now we were picnicing together as if we were friends of long standing.

Why, Nellie Dean could not appear more unpretentious and unconscious of social differences than this girl to-day! What would her parents say if they saw us like this?
What would Captain Jed, and the rest of those in rebellion against the Emperor of New York, say?
That I was a traitor, hand and glove with the enemy.

Well, I was not; and I did not intend to be.