She only discovered one thing, that poor Miss Bessy Dicky was reading at him and posing at him and trembling her hands at him, and that she was throwing it all away, for Von Rosen heard no more of her report than if he had been in China when she was reading it.

Mrs.Snyder realised that hardly anything in nature could be so totally uninteresting to the young man as the report of a woman's club.

Inasmuch as she herself was devoted to such things, she regarded him with disapproval, although with a certain admiration.

Karl von Rosen always commanded admiration, although often of a grudging character, from women.

His utter indifference to them as women was the prime factor in this; next to that his really attractive, even distinguished, personality.