"There never has been any mystery about my thinking her--all in her own way--the nicest girl in London.

She IS." His companion was silent a little.

"She is, by all means.

Well," she then added, "so far as I may have been alive to the fact of any one's thinking her so, it's not out of place I should mention to you the difference made in my appreciation of it by our delightful little stay at Mertle.

My views for Nanda," said Mrs.Brook, "have somehow gone up." Vanderbank was prompt to show how he could understand it.