Side by side they passed beneath the trees.
"Tell me," he begged in a low tone, "about this lover of yours!" "There is so little to tell," she answered.

"He is a member of the firm who publish books for my father.

He is quite kind to us both.

He used to come down here more often, even, than he does now, and one night he asked my father whether he might speak to me." "And your father ?" "My father was very much pleased," she continued.

"We have little money and father is not very strong.