Those sea-birds, too, were all shot from here." "What strange little creatures!" she murmured.

"You seem to find quite a lot of time to read and do other things beside fish, Mr.Andrew," she remarked, as she looked over his bookcases.

"You puzzle me very much sometimes.

I had no idea," she added, looking at him hesitatingly, "that people who have to work, as you have to, for a living, understood and read books like this." "Ah, well," he answered, "I had perhaps a little more education than some of them." The servant returned with some more things upon a tray.

Jeanne sat down with a little laugh in front of the teapot.