14/34 "I suppose it depends upon whether you like that kind of thing or not. Why don't you ask Peyton ?" At the time he couldn't have told himself whether he admired Patty or not. She surprised him, she struck a new note, the note of the unexpected, but whether he liked or disliked it, he could not tell. "There is something unusual about her," he concluded hurriedly, feeling that he had not been quite fair. "She seems to have a kind of fascination. |