"And you suppose the girl would go?
Really, major, you don't seem to understand this boasted liberty of your own countrywoman.

What does she care for her father's control?
Why, she'd make him do just what SHE wanted.

But," she added with an expression of dignity, "perhaps we had better not discuss this until we know something of Emile's feelings in the matter.

That is the only question that concerns us." With this she swept out of the room, leaving the major at first speechless with honest indignation, and then after the fashion of all guileless natures, a little uneasy and suspicious of his own guilelessness.

For a day or two after, he found himself, not without a sensation of meanness, watching Rose when in Emile's presence, but he could distinguish nothing more than the frank satisfaction she showed equally to the others.