Yes, I think I was really young while it lasted." "For a month," said the elder.

"And after ?" "Then," said the girl slowly, "it all seemed to grow a trifle purposeless, and there was something that spoiled it.

Toinette was quite angry and I know her mother wrote you--but it was not my fault, aunt.

How was I, a guileless girl from the prairie, to guess that such a man would fling the handkerchief to me ?" The evenness of tone and entire absence of embarrassment was significant.

It also pointed to the fact that there was a closer confidence between Maud Barrington and her aunt than often exists between mother and daughter, and the elder lady stroked the lustrous head that rested against her knee with a little affectionate pride.
"My dear, you know you are beautiful, and you have the cachet that all the Courthornes wear.