1/17 A SISTER'S SECRET. What would you say was a good profession for a young man of twenty-six who has had no education worth speaking about, and who is not very quick by nature ?" The speaker was Charles Westmacott, and the time this same summer evening in the tennis ground, though the shadows had fallen now and the game been abandoned. I believe that you could do it better than any one. I feel confidence in your opinion." "It is very flattering." She glanced up again at his earnest, questioning face, with its Saxon eyes and drooping flaxen mustache, in some doubt as to whether he might be joking. |