What self-sacrificing opportunists men are! After all, Kelly," she added, slipping easily into the vernacular, "it's always up to the girl." "Is it ?" "Yes, I think so.

I knew perfectly well that I had no business to let Querida's arm remain around me.

But--there was a moon, Kelly." "Certainly." "Why do you say 'certainly' ?" "Because there _was_ one." "But you say it in a manner--" She hesitated, continued her breakfast in leisurely reflection for a while, then: "Louis ?" "Yes." "Am I too frank with you ?" "Why ?" "I don't know; I was just thinking.

I tell you pretty nearly everything.
If I didn't have you to tell--have somebody--" She considered, with brows slightly knitted--"if I didn't have _somebody_ to talk to, it wouldn't be very good for me.

I realise that." "You need a grandmother," he said, drily; "and I'm the closest resemblance to one procurable." The imagery struck her as humorous and she laughed.
"Poor Kelly," she said aloud to herself, "he is used and abused and imposed upon, and in revenge he offers his ungrateful tormentor delicious breakfasts.