But she had what the Scotch call a 'scunner' against me when I was a boy.

She's the sort of woman who's a good friend and a bad enemy." "I must hope," said his hostess softly, "that she'll be a good friend to me.

At any rate, it was nice of her to come and call almost at once, wasn't it ?" "You've delightful quarters here," observed Radmore.

"The Trellis House was a very different place to this in my time; I can remember a hideous, cold and white wallpaper in this room--it looks twice as large as it did then." "I found the things I sold made it possible for me to buy almost everything in The Trellis House.

Tappin & Edge say that I got a great bargain." "Yes," said Radmore hesitatingly, "I expect you did." But all the same he felt that his pretty friend had made a mistake, for he remembered some of Colonel Crofton's furniture as having been very good.