Only I've never yet quite made out the reason of her wish." "The reason is largely," his friend answered, "that, being very fond of Aggie and in fact extremely admiring her, she wants to do something good for her and to keep her from anything bad.

Don't you know--it's too charming--she regularly believes in her ?" Mitchy, with all his recognition, vibrated to the touch.

"Isn't it too charming ?" "Well then," Vanderbank went on, "she secures for her friend a phoenix like you, and secures for you a phoenix like her friend.

It's hard to say for which of you she desires most to do the handsome thing.

She loves you both in short"-- he followed it up--"though perhaps when one thinks of it the price she puts on you, Mitchy, in the arrangement, is a little the higher.