"Oh he's of course on certain sides shy." "Awfully--too beautifully.

And then there's Aggie," the girl pursued.

"I mean for the real old thing." "Yes, no doubt--if she BE the real old thing.

But what the deuce really IS Aggie ?" "Well," said Nanda with the frankest interest, "she's a miracle.

If one could be her exactly, absolutely, without the least little mite of change, one would probably be wise to close with it.