She is going to make us a long visit, and I hope you will love each other very much." The two cousins studied each other.

Then in her shy way Mary held out her hand.
"Oh, I love you already!" said Helen impulsively, and hugged her instead.
That evening they exchanged confidences and when Miss Cordelia heard about this, she questioned Mary and enjoyed herself immensely.
"And then what did she ask you ?" finally inquired Miss Cordelia, making an effort to keep her face straight.
"She asked me if I had a beau, and I told her 'No.'" "And then what did she say ?" "She asked me if there was anything the matter with the boys around here, and I told her I didn't know." "And then ?" "And then she said, 'I'll bet you I'll soon find out.' But just then Aunt Patty came in and we had to stop." Later Miss Patty came downstairs looking thoughtful and spoke to her sister in troubled secret.
"I've just been in Helen's room," she said, "and what do you think she has on her dresser ?" "I give it up," replied Miss Cordelia in a very rich, voice.
"Three photographs of young men!" The two sisters gazed at each other, quite overcome, and if you had been there you would have seen that if they had held fans in their hands, they would have fanned themselves with vigour.
"Didn't you hear anything of this--in Charleston ?" asked Miss Cordelia at last.
"Not a word, my dear.

I heard she was very popular; that was all." "'Popular'...!" "The one thing, perhaps, that we have never been." Miss Cordelia shook her head and made a helpless gesture.

"Well," she said at last, "I must confess we were looking for an antidote ...

but I never thought we'd be quite so successful....".