"One may be led away to like a pale girl with a mind for a time, but for permanent domestic happiness give me a good complexion, and--a dimple," he added, as if it were an after-thought.

"I feel I could not bestow my best affections on a woman without a dimple.

Yes, indeed! Ralph has chosen well." Now I do not agree with Charles there, as I have always considered that a woman _should_ have a certain amount of mind; just enough, in fact, to enable her to appreciate a superior one.

I said as much to Charles; but he only laughed, and said it was a subject on which opinion had always varied.
"How did he meet her ?" I inquired.
"On the Rigi, last summer," said Charles.

"I am thinking of going there myself next year.