164/233 I say there are good chances--enough of them for hope. Why shouldn't there be when a girl is, after all, all that she is ?" "By after 'all' you mean after she's in love with somebody else ?" The Colonel put his question with a quietude doubtless designed to be fatal; but it scarcely pulled her up. "She's not too much in love not herself to want to marry. She would now particularly like to." "Has she told you so ?" "Not yet. |