"But I'm sure he'll be satisfactory.

He'll be out here this evening--he--he couldn't get away before, I believe.

What have you been doing all day, darling ?" Miss Cornelia hesitated.

Now that Dale had returned she suddenly wanted very much to talk over the various odd happenings of the day with her--get the support of her youth and her common sense.

Then that independence which was so firmly rooted a characteristic of hers restrained her.