I think you should know that yourself." And straightway a wave of the crowd swept her beyond his reach.
"Now what can the girl mean?
Of course she likes Washington--I'm not such a dummy as to have to ask her that.

And as to its being her first visit, why bang it, she knows that I knew it was.

Does she think I have turned idiot?
Curious girl, anyway.

But how they do swarm about her! She is the reigning belle of Washington after this night.

She'll know five hundred of the heaviest guns in the town before this night's nonsense is over.