She wants to know when I'm going to begin.

Women are very persistent, Miss Deringham, but this one has some reason." "They usually have," said the girl.

"I do not, however, know Mrs.
Jimmy." "Of course," said Alton, smiling.

"Still, I expect you'll see her up here presently." It was a day or two later when Alton returned to the topic of Mrs.
Jimmy, and he was then kneeling in the stern of a canoe which slid with a swift smoothness down the placid lake as he dipped the glistening paddle.

Miss Deringham was seated forward on a pile of cedar-twigs, with a wet line in her fingers, and in no way disturbed by the fact that she had caught nothing.