"Why then did you make such an announcement to Mrs.Herndon ?" "Oh, that was different," she explained, uneasily.

"I had to do that; I had to trust you to help me out, but--but I really wanted to go home alone." He swept his unbelieving eyes around over the deserted night scene, not knowing what answer to return to so strange an avowal.

"Was that what caused you to appear so distant to me in the hall, so vastly different from what you had been before ?" She nodded, but with her gaze still upon the ground.
"Miss Naida," he said, "it would be cowardly for me to attempt to dodge this issue between us.

Is it because you do not like me ?" She looked up quickly, the moonlight revealing her flushed face.
"Oh, no, no! you must never think that.

I told you I was a girl of moods; under those vines I had one mood, in the hall another.