78/233 They're quite my element." He deferred, for her, to this account of herself. "But still," he said, "if we're not in the presence of a complication." She hesitated. "A handsome, clever, odd girl staying with one is always a complication." The young man weighed it almost as if the question were new to him. "And will she stay very long ?" His friend gave a laugh. "How in the world can I know? |