It was only because I wondered if you could have thought I would tell, if I would be so mean." "And you thought, perhaps, I was bribing you not to tell, with Vassar College," Cynthia said, suddenly.

"Well, you have suspected me of something which was undeserved." "I am very sorry," Ellen said.

"I did not suspect, really, but I do not know why you do this for me." She said the last with her steady eyes of interrogation on Cynthia's face.
"You know the reasons I have given." "I do not think they were the only ones," Ellen replied, stoutly.

"I do not think my valedictory was so good as to warrant so much, and I do not think I am so smart as to warrant so much, either." Cynthia laughed.

She sat down again.