"I mean literally everything. Go over them with the catalogue!" "Oh, how in the world can you fancy?" She spoke in a shocked tone.!

"But you've heard nothing?" Fleda hesitated a moment; after which she exclaimed with a certain hard pride: "He's enough in love with me for anything!"

Fleda, as if she humbly assented, went through no form of controverting this; she simply stood passive to her companion's sudden refreshment of her appearance. "How can I get him away from her?" she presently demanded. Fleda looked very grave, weighing the whole matter. "I dare say that when she started, when she arrived, she didn't mean to 'come down.'" "I was embarrassed, for I saw my danger—the danger of her going home and saying to Mona that I was backing you up. It had been a bliss to learn that Owen had really turned to you, but my joy didn't put me off my guard. I reflected intensely for a few seconds; then I saw my issue."