"You don't think I had better see Van ?" She stared.

"What for ?" "Why, to ask what the devil he means." "If you should do anything so hideously vulgar," she instantly replied, "I'd leave your house the next hour.

Do you expect," she asked, "to be able to force your child down his throat ?" He was clearly not prepared with an account of his expectations, but he had a general memory that imposed itself.

"Then why in the world did he make up to us ?" "He didn't.

We made up to HIM." "But why in the world-- ?" "Well," said Mrs.Brook, really to finish, "we were in love with him." "Oh!" Edward jerked.