I've been reading most of the afternoon." "The Maiden Knight ?" This was the book which nearly everybody had brought on board.

It was just out, and had caught an instant favor, which swelled later to a tidal wave.

It depicted a heroic girl in every trying circumstance of mediaeval life, and gratified the perennial passion of both sexes for historical romance, while it flattered woman's instinct of superiority by the celebration of her unintermitted triumphs, ending in a preposterous and wholly superfluous self-sacrifice.
March laughed for pleasure in her guess, and she pursued, "I suppose you didn't waste time looking if anybody had brought the last copy of 'Every Other Week' ?" "Yes, I did; and I found the one you had left in your steamer chair--for advertising purposes, probably." "Mr.Burnamy has another," she said.

"I saw it sticking out of his pocket this morning." "Oh, yes.

He told me he had got it on the train from Chicago to see if it had his poem in it.