Oh, she admitted that you were clever! Indeed, she urged that you were far too clever to submit to the tests of some one you did not know.

I replied that you would.

I was right, Celie, was I not ?" And again the appeal sounded rather piteously in Mme.

Dauvray's voice.
"Tests!" said Celia, with a contemptuous laugh.

And, in truth, she was not afraid of them.Mme.