You know, father, you always said that I was businesslike." There was interested curiosity in Vanderpoel's steady look at her.

There were times when he felt that Betty's summing up of things was well worth listening to.

He saw that now she was in one of her moods when it would pay one to hear her out.

She held her chin up a little, and her face took on a fine stillness at once sweet and unrelenting.

She was very good to look at in such moments.
"Yes," he answered, "you have a particularly level head for a girl." "Well," she went on.