Beverley asked some questions of his mother concerning Anita.
"All the fellows like to dance with her and ride with her, but she treats them all as she does old Conway." "Old Conway," Colonel Fortescue's aide, was barely turned thirty; but to the twenty-one-year-old Beverley, Conway seemed an aged veteran.
"I can't understand it," plaintively responded Mrs.Fortescue.
"Sometimes I think Anita has no coquetry in her.

Again I think she is the worst type of coquette--she treats all men alike.

You remember my writing you about Anita being thrown at the music ride last Christmas Eve, and Broussard jumping his horse over her ?" "I should think so," answered Beverley.

"I wish you could have seen the letter the Colonel wrote me about it.

I felt more sorry for what the poor old chap must have suffered than for you, mother." "Don't call your father 'the poor old chap,'" said Mrs.Fortescue positively.