How does anybody find out anything ?" "I don't believe Mr.Allen ever once thought of her," said Sylvia, and there was resentment in her voice.
"Of course he didn't.

Maybe he'll take a shine to that girl you've got with you now." "Neither one of them has even thought of such a thing," declared Sylvia, and her voice was almost violent.
"Well, I don't know," Lucinda said, indifferently.

"I have had too much to look out for of my own affairs since the girl came to know anything about that.

I only thought of their being in the same house.
I always had sort of an idea myself that maybe Lucy Ayres would be the one." "I hadn't," said Sylvia.

"Not but she--well, she looked real sick to-day.