Usually she is extremely, courteous to strangers, but she was abstracted, positively abstracted at that moment.

I wondered at it, for he usually makes a stir wherever he goes.

But my wife cares little for beauty in a man; I doubt if she noticed his looks at all.

She did not catch his name, I remember." "Pardon me, what is that you say ?" "She did not catch his name, for later she asked me what it was." "Tell me about that, Mr.Packard." "It is immaterial; but I am ready to answer all your questions.

It was while we were out dining.