"Personally, I am far from impressed with J.Elfreda.She strikes me as being entirely too fond of her own comfort.

Now that she has vacated your seat, you had better take it, Grace, before she comes back." Grace shook her head.

"I don't dislike riding backward," she said, "if you don't mind having her sit beside you.

Perhaps some one will leave the train by the time she comes back; then she will leave us." "No such good fortune," retorted Miriam.

"She prefers our society to none at all.