I'm not at all sure that I shall not spend my winter on the Pacific." "Why, Madge! With your health you could spend it in Greenland." "That's what I may do.

We always have a lovely green land in that climate." "I must investigate Santa Barbara.

You have left some one or something there which has powerful attractions." "Yes, memories; as well as skies so bright that you can't help smiling back at them." "I supposed you were going to enter society this fall and create a _furore_." "Oh, bah!" Then she began to laugh, and said, "A certain gentleman in this house thought I was so bent on having my fling in society that I didn't wish to be embarrassed by even a little fraternal counsel." "A certain fellow in this house finds himself embarrassed by a black-eyed clairvoyant, who reads his thoughts as if they were sign-boards, but remains inscrutable herself." "Such an objectionable and inconvenient creature should certainly be banished to wilds of the West" "As one of the Muir family I'll never consent." "You'll soon be engrossed by cares of your own," she concluded, laughing.

"Good-night." "Stay," said Graydon, eagerly; "one so gifted with second-sight should be able to read the thoughts of others." "Whose ?" Madge asked, demurely.
"Whose indeed?
As if you did not know! Miss Wildmere's." "What! Reveal a woman's thoughts?
I won't speak to you again to-night;" and she left him with his tranquillity not a little disturbed..