I have thought sometimes--I wondered whether out-of-the-way people and common ones do not get along best together.

Does n't Cyprian want some more every-day kind of girl to keep him straight?
Myrtle is beautiful, beautiful,--fascinates everybody.

Has Mr.Bradshaw been following after her lately?
He is taken with her too.

Didn't you ever think she would have to give in to Murray Bradshaw at last?
He looks to me like a man that would hold on desperately as a lover." If Myrtle Hazard, instead of being a half-finished school-girl, hardly sixteen years old, had been a young woman of eighteen or nineteen, it would have been plain sailing enough for Murray Bradshaw.

But he knew what a distance their ages seemed just now to put between them,--a distance which would grow practically less and less with every year, and he did not wish to risk anything so long as there was no danger of interference.