There's one place where that DALRYMPLE chap talks even on for two pages, and never lets the girl get a word in edgewise.

If he'd done that in real life she'd have pitched him." "I don't believe it," said Anne flatly.

In her secret soul she thought that the beautiful, poetical things said to AVERIL would win any girl's heart completely.

Besides, it was gruesome to hear of AVERIL, the stately, queen-like AVERIL, "pitching" any one.

AVERIL "declined her suitors." "Anyhow," resumed the merciless Mr.Harrison, "I don't see why MAURICE LENNOX didn't get her.