Whether or not he comes here too often is not for me to say--I have no opinion on the subject.

But, to do him justice, he is about the last man to wait for a tacit dismissal, or to cause you and Julius to depart from what he knows to be your regular habit out of politeness to him.

He is a person of too much delicacy and good breeding to stay when--if--that is to say--" She turned again to the window without completing her sentence, and, though Mrs.Carling thought she could complete it for her, she wisely forbore.

After a moment of silence, Mary said in a voice devoid of any traces of confusion: "You asked me if I thought Mr.Lenox would come so often if there were no object in his coming except to see Julius.

I can only say that if Julius were out of the question I think he would come here but seldom; but," she added, as she left the window and resumed her seat, "I do not quite see the object of this discussion, and, indeed, I am not quite sure of what we are discussing.