Mrs.Smith said openly that she wished she might see more of Eliph' Hewlitt, and that she thought him a most remarkable book agent, particularly after she had heard of his selling the Missionary Society a wholesale lot of Jarby's Encyclopedia, and after glancing through the book she admitted that it was really an excellent thing of its kind, but Miss Sally merely remarked that she didn't like book agents, and that she hated this one more than most, he was so slick.
The energetic spirit of Mrs.Smith was sure to carry her into anything that partook of a social nature, and she had arrived in Kilo in the midst of the festival season, when out-door festivals of all varieties were following one after another almost weekly for the benefit of the church, which had a properly clinging and insatiable debt.

In these festivals she took a prominent part, for the brought her in contact with the people of Kilo as nothing else could, and if she enjoyed the affairs, so did Susan.

Susan bloomed wonderfully.

She sprang at once from childhood to young womanhood, and Mrs.Smith was pleased to have her protegee appear so well and receive so much attention, for she felt that she had had the revision of her.

She already saw in her the heroine of the novel she meant to write, with the plot beginning in Kilo and Clarence, and carried to New York and, perhaps, Europe.
The attorney and the editor were particularly nice to Susan, and attentive to Mrs.Smith at all the festivals, and it amused the New Yorker to find herself and her maid on and equal social plane.