"Ah there you are! And now we're 'we people'! That's right--give it to us.

I'm sure that in one way or another it's all earned.

Well, I've known her ten years.

But awfully well." "What do you call awfully well ?" "We people ?" Vanderbank's enquirer, with his continued restless observation, moving nearer, the young man had laid on his shoulder the lightest of friendly hands.

"Don't you perhaps ask too much?
But no," he added quickly and gaily, "of course you don't: if I don't look out I shall have exactly the effect on you I don't want.