Katy did not reply.

She had promised Albert she wouldn't.

But there was no harm in her reading them, just to keep Smith from drowning himself among those black leeches in Diamond Lake.
Isabel Marlay, in her distressful sense of responsibility to Albert, could yet find no means of breaking up this renewed communication.

In sheer desperation, she appealed to Mrs.Plausaby.
"Well, now," said that lady, sitting in state with the complacent consciousness of a new and more stunning head-dress than usual, "I'll tell you what it is, Isabel, I think Albert makes altogether too much fuss over Katy's affairs.

He'll break the girl's heart.