Ha! do I see a little colour coming into your cheeks?
You sly girl! you know who it is.

_There_ is what I call a Man! If I was as young as you are, and as pretty as you are--" A warning gesture from Carmina closed Teresa's lips.

Ovid was rapidly approaching them.
He looked a little annoyed, and he made his apologies without mentioning the doctor's name.

His cousin was interested enough in him already to ask herself what this meant.

Did he really dislike Benjulia, and had there been some disagreement between them?
"Was the tall doctor so very interesting ?" she ventured to inquire.
"Not in the least!" He answered as if the subject was disagreeable to him--and yet he returned to it.