A handsome, clever, odd girl staying with one was a complication.

Mrs.Assingham, so far, was right.

But there were the facts--the good relations, from schooldays, of the two young women, and the clear confidence with which one of them had arrived.

"She can come, you know, at any time, to US." Mrs.Assingham took it up with an irony beyond laughter.

"You'd like her for your honeymoon ?" "Oh no, you must keep her for that.