"Well, I don't know; perhaps not," she conceded.

"I do like a man to be of an age to know his own mind.

That is why I am so surprised at Adele Dale's anxiety to bring about a match between young Forsythe and Lois, they are neither of them old enough to know their own minds.

And it is scarcely delicate in Adele, I must say." "He's a very superior young man," objected Miss Ruth.
"Yes," Miss Deborah acknowledged; "and yet"-- she hesitated a little--"I think he has not quite the--the modesty one expects in a young person." "Yes, but think how he has seen the world, sister!" cried Miss Ruth.

"You cannot expect him to be just like other young people." "True," said Miss Deborah, nodding her head; "and yet"-- it was evident from her persistence that Miss Deborah had a grievance of some kind--"yet he seems to have more than a proper conceit.