It sounded altogether too logical for the average woman writer.

I think I will read it.

Then after I have read it, you will not refuse to discuss it with me, will you ?" "I do not think so," replied Annie tremulously.

Would he never talk of anything except that book?
To her relief he did, to her relief and scarcely acknowledged delight.
"Are you interested in curios, things from Egyptian tombs, for instance ?" he inquired with brutal masculine disregard of sequence.
Annie was bewildered, but she managed to reply that she thought she might be.

She had heard of Von Rosen's very interesting collection.
"I happened to meet your aunt, Miss Harriet, this afternoon," said Von Rosen, "and I inquired if she were by any chance interested and she said she was." "Yes," said Annie.