"Why, yes," she admitted; "perhaps." "I see.

But it was rather an ordeal for you.

Do you have to endure much of that sort of thing ?" "No more than any girl who keeps store, I guess." At the dinner table that evening Keith referred to his experience as listener in Hamilton and Company's shop.
"That girl with the queer name," he said, "a niece of those two old chaps who run the place, I believe she is.

Do you know anything about her, Gertrude ?" Before Mrs.Keith could reply, Edna spoke: "Ask Sam, Dad," she said, mischievously.

"Sam knows about her.