"I rather hoped Miss Mabel would come to see me to-day," she added.

"I look forward to her visits so, I think she's a real friend of ours, Roscoe.

I know you don't, dear, or you try to believe you do not; but she is--I am convinced of it.

I wonder if she will come to-morrow." I could have put a stop to her wondering on that subject, but I was in no mood to do it then.

I went into the dining-room.