Yours is just the sort of influence that she needs." "Oh, thank you!" Dinah said gratefully.

"I was afraid just for a moment, because I know I have been silly and flighty.

I try to be sober when I am with her, but--" "Don't try to be anything but yourself, Miss Bathurst!" he said.

"I have confided in you just because you are yourself; and I wouldn't have you any different for the world.

You help her just by being yourself." Dinah laughed while she shook her head.