"I feel a sort of pleasant glow myself, whenever I 've talked to you a few minutes; but the trouble is that you used to fan that pleasant glow into a raging heat, and then we both got angry." "If the present 'raging heat' has faded into the 'pleasant glow,' I don't mind telling you that you are very much improved," said Edgar encouragingly.

"Your temper seems much the same, but no one who knew you at fourteen could have foreseen that you would turn out so exceedingly well." "Do you mean that I am better looking ?" asked Polly, with the excited frankness of sixteen years.
"Exactly." "Oh, thank you, thank you, Edgar.

I 'm a thousand times obliged.

I 've thought so myself, lately; but it's worth everything to have your grown-up, college opinion.

Of course red hair has come into vogue, that's one point in my favor, though I fear mine is a little vivid even for the fashion; Margery has done a water color of my head which Phil says looks like the explosion of a tomato.