"Good for you, Lorry!" he cried.

"_That_ was the talk!" "It was," replied Lorry.

"Well, she got red again, where she had been white as a dogwood blossom, and she hung her head.

'You don't deny it, do you ?' said I.She didn't make any answer.

'It wasn't altogether to ask me how I was getting on with my college course, was it, Miss Estelle ?' And she said 'No' so low that I had to guess at it." Lorry suspended his story.