Yea-Verily fell in love with her because she admired Babs.

'Love me, love my Babs,' don't you know!" "Don't be a goose, Amias! He was as much pleased as I was, Mr.Herrick, when Miss Templeton kissed Baby and made much of her; she said the sweetest things to her, and Babs was so charmed that she actually put up her face and kissed her of her own accord." "The other Miss Templeton is a striking-looking woman of rather uncommon type," observed Amias, blowing away a cloud of smoke rather lazily.

"She made herself very pleasant too, and said all sorts of civil things." "I thought her rather formidable at first," annotated Verity, "but I soon discovered that she was interesting; she is very bright and original, and we soon got on very nicely together." "By the bye, Mr.Herrick, they want us all to dine at the Wood House to-morrow; it is to be a comfortable, informal sort of meal.

I told Miss Templeton that I had no company manners, as I had lived all my life in Bohemia; and then Miss Elizabeth laughed, and said she was rather unconventional herself, and that she thought I should exactly suit them." "I told you so," responded Malcolm in a low voice.

"I suppose there will be no other guests ?" "Only the Carlyons," returned Verity.