Next week, when all are gone but Watts, he will have his time, and shine the more by contrast with what she has had this week." "Then you think Helen and Watts care for each other ?" asked Mrs.Pierce, flushing with pleasure, to find her own opinion of such a delightful possibility supported by her husband's.
"I think," said Mr.Pierce, "that the less we parents concern ourselves with love the better.

If I have made opportunities for Helen and Watts to see something of each other, I have only done what was to their mutual interests.

Any courtesy I have shown him is well enough accounted for on the ground of his father's interest in my institution, without the assumption of any matrimonial intentions.

However, I am not opposed to a marriage.

Watts is the son of a very rich man of the best social position in New York, besides being a nice fellow in himself.