Dinah was reading as usual, with her little green lamp beside her; but she closed her book and looked up at her inquiringly.
"What is it, Betty ?" she said gently.

"Something has been troubling you to-night." Then Elizabeth turned aside her face for a moment, but she was not regarding herself in the great mirror.

"It concerns David," continued Dinah calmly.

Then Elizabeth gave vent to a heavy sigh.
"Yes, it concerns David," she returned.

"I have been talking to him, oh so seriously, and to his father too; but it is no use.