In her woman heart, she was proud and glad to have won the love of such a man as Phil, even though she could not accept the cowboy as her mate.

On that very spot which the professor had chosen for his declaration, Patches had told her that she was leaving the glorious and enduring realities of life for vain and foolish bubbles--that she was throwing aside the good grain and choosing the husks.

Was this what Patches meant?
she wondered.
"I regret exceedingly, Miss Reid," the professor was saying, "that the pure and lofty sentiments which I have voiced do not seem to find a like response in your soul.

I--" Again she interrupted him with that gesture of repulsion.

"Please do not say any more, Professor Parkhill.