"But I am full of guile, dear innocent! I go forth to conquer." "Not the Governor, I hope ?" "Oh, no, the Governor is nothing--a prize, nothing more.

My antagonist is Mrs.Stribling." "Rose Stribling ?" The Judge was mildly astonished.

"Why, I remember her as a little girl in white dresses." Corinna's smile became scornful.

"Well, she isn't a little girl any longer, and she oughtn't to be in white dresses." "Dear me, dear me," rejoined the old gentleman.

"I am aware that you have a dramatic temperament, but it is scarcely possible that you are jealous of little Rose.