Was Timmy going to say something of Betty, and of that old, painful, now he hoped forgotten, episode?
But Timmy only observed musingly:--"You haven't seen Rosamund yet.

Of course we never say so to her, because it might make her vain, but I do think, Godfrey, that she's very, _very_ pretty." And then, rather to his companion's discomfiture, his queer little mind swung back to the woman to whose house they had just been.

"Mrs.
Crofton," he observed, with an air of finality, "may be pretty, but she's got what I call a blotting-paper face.".