There was nothing that he could learn from that.

He was as good a judge of the manner in which he would play his own game as Kate could be; but in this matter he was to learn how he would play his game from a knowledge of the other girl's mind.

"She'll never marry him, at any rate," he said to himself, "and she is right.

He'd make an upper servant of her; very respectable, no doubt, but still only an upper servant.

Now with me;--well, I hardly know what I should make of her.