To tell you the truth, I think I hated you a little for it." "You were quite right," returned Paul.

"I must have been insufferable! And I admit that I was slightly piqued against YOU for the idolatries showered upon you at the same moment by your friends." Usually, when two young people have reached the point of confidingly exchanging their first impressions of each other, some progress has been made in first acquaintance.

But it did not strike Paul in that way, and Yerba's next remark was discouraging.
"But I'm rather disappointed, for all that.

Colonel Pendleton tells me you know nothing of my family or of the secret." Paul was this time quite prepared, and withstood the girl's scrutiny calmly.

"Do you think," he asked lightly, "that even HE knows ?" "Of course he does," she returned quickly.