"Ah, Princess," she said, touching the girl's shoulder with her jeweled hand, "I told you I was a very foolish woman, and I am, but not so foolish as to offer advice often.

Yet, believe me, it won't do.

I think that is one of the greatest young men I ever knew, and it's a pity--but it won't do." Miss Betty kept her face away from her guardian for a moment.

No inconsiderable amount of information had drifted to her, from here and there, regarding the career of Crailey Gray, and she thought how intensely she would have hated any person in the world except Mrs.
Tanberry for presuming to think she needed to be warned against the charms of this serenading lady-killer, who was the property of another girl.
"You must keep him away, I think," ventured Mrs.Tanberry, gently.
At that Betty turned to her and said, sharply: "I will.

After this, please let us never speak of him again." A slow nod of the other's turbaned head indicated the gravest acquiescence.