She is the queerest girl.

She seems to think that it wouldn't be right to allow Father to adopt her and take care of her.

She says she has everything she needs now, and that I have been far too good to her.

Father and I simply made her spend the summer with us." "Wouldn't it be wonderful if Ruth should find her father ?" said Grace musingly.
"I don't believe she ever will," returned Arline.

"It's too bad." Her flower-like face looked very solemn for a moment, then brightened as she exclaimed: "Oh, I almost forgot my principal reason for wishing to see you.