"Do you think I doubt her ?" he asked.
"The earth doesn't hold a truer girl than my little Carmina!" A thought struck him while he said it.

The brightness faded out of his face; his voice lost its gaiety.

"There is one person who may call on you," he said, "whom I don't wish her to see." "Who is he ?" "Unfortunately, he is a man who has excited her curiosity.

I mean Benjulia." It was now Mrs.Gallilee's turn to be amused.

Her laugh was not one of her foremost fascinations.