"How can you prove that she knows nothing ?" "Oh, she has eyes for nobody but the old man," he laughed.

"To-night is an example.

Why, she wouldn't come to Connachan, even though she knew that Walter was there.

She preferred to spend the evening here with her father." "She's a little fool, of course, Jimmy," replied the woman in pink; "but perhaps it was as well that she didn't come.

I hate to have to chaperon the chit.