"I shall be so very pleased if you will." "Thank you," said the woman.

Miss Lavery came up in a hurry to introduce her to Miss Tolley.

"I am telling all my friends to read your articles," she added, resuming the gracious patroness, as she bowed her adieus.
Joan was alone again for a while.

A handsome girl, with her hair cut short and parted at the side, was discussing diseases of the spine with a curly-headed young man in a velvet suit.

The gentleman was describing some of the effects in detail.