Carrie and Ashmore were, as usual, out riding or walking, and the conversation naturally turned upon them.

At last, Anna, whose curiosity was still on the alert to know something of Penoyer, asked Agnes of him.

I will repeat, in substance, what Agnes said.
It seems that for many years Penoyer had been a teacher of music in Albany.

Agnes was one of his pupils, and while teaching her music he thought proper to fall overwhelmingly in love with her.

This for a time she did not notice; but when his attentions became so pointed as to become a subject of remark, she very coolly tried to make him understand his position.