"I?
A stranger ?" "Oh you won't be a stranger--presently.

You shall see her quite, I assure you, as if you weren't." It remained for him none the less an extraordinary notion.

"It seems to me surely that if her mother can't--" "Ah little girls and their mothers to-day!" she rather inconsequently broke in.

But she checked herself with something she seemed to give out as after all more to the point.

"Tell her I've been good for him.
Don't you think I have ?" It had its effect on him--more than at the moment he quite measured.
Yet he was consciously enough touched.