When I told her of this, she said, "I need them, I'm so out of practice." That was the nearest we had come to touching upon the interview of a certain afternoon.

I should not have considered this a forbidden topic, but her shyness became pitiful at any seeming approach to it.

"Jim will put you right again," I assured her.

And I believe he did, though it was not easy to persuade him that she could be morally recognized when I was by.

The occasion on which he first remained crouching at her feet while I walked away was regarded by Miss Kate as a personal triumph.