"Don't you think it was very brave of her to go to work, Miss Lancaster ?" "I understood that she was obliged to," rejoined Miss Lancaster, with the weary amiability of her professional manner.
"She might have married, I happen to know that," returned Mrs.Spencer.
"Arthur Peyton has been in love with her ever since she was a child, and there was a young man from New York last winter who seemed crazy about her.

Florrie, don't you think George Fowler was just crazy about Gabriella ?" "I'm sure I don't know, mother.

He paid her a great deal of attention, but you never can tell about men." "Julia Caperton told me, and, of course, she's very intimate with George's sister, that he went back to New York because he heard that Gabriella was engaged to Arthur.

Florrie, do you suppose she is really engaged to Arthur ?" Thus appealed to, Florrie removed the Leghorn hat from her head, and answered abstractedly: "Jane thought so, but if she is engaged, I don't see why she should have started to work.

I know Arthur would hate it." "But isn't he too poor to marry ?" inquired Mrs.Spencer, whose curiosity was as robust as her constitution.