What does Miss Garland think ?" Hudson looked at him keenly, with a slight blush.

Then, with a conscious smile, "What makes you suppose she thinks anything ?" he asked.
"Because, though I saw her but for a moment yesterday, she struck me as a very intelligent person, and I am sure she has opinions." The smile on Roderick's mobile face passed rapidly into a frown.

"Oh, she thinks what I think!" he answered.
Before the two young men separated Rowland attempted to give as harmonious a shape as possible to his companion's scheme.

"I have launched you, as I may say," he said, "and I feel as if I ought to see you into port.

I am older than you and know the world better, and it seems well that we should voyage a while together.