"Burning still, miss. Ain't it quite too dreadful? Took early this morning—the whole place is up there." "You should have told her, you know, that I had seen you in town only that one time," Fleda observed.!

"Read it?" At the sight of him two fresh waves passed quickly across her heart, one at the heels of the other. The first was an instant perception that this encounter was not an accident; the second a consciousness as prompt that the best place for it was the street. She knew before he told her that he had been to see her, and the next thing she knew was that he had had information from his mother. Her mind grasped these things while he said with a smile: "I saw only your back, but I was sure. I was over the way. I've been at your house."

"Well, if she calls you names." "It has lasted long enough for my purpose. There was something I wanted to know, but I think I know it now." "By every means in her power."