made a groan--"it isn't going to be the old story--and that he'll be good to her if he gets her." "Then it is not yet a betrothal ?" "Not yet.

Mrs.Landry told me that Alice had liked him well enough to promise she'd give him her answer before she sailed, and that it was going to be yes.

She herself said it was almost settled.

That was just her way of breaking it to me, I fear." "You have given up, my friend ?" "What else can I do?
I can't go on following her, keeping up this play at second cousin, and she won't have anything else.

Ever since I grew up she's been rather sorrowful over me because I didn't do anything but try to amuse myself--that was one of the reasons she couldn't care for me, she said, when I asked her.