I can make allowance for you: you think I have been making a fool of myself, after all." "The beginning was ominous." "The beginning of our acquaintance?
Yes, I know how it strikes you.

But she came in that way because she had been trying for months----" "Who was it that told her of you ?" "Oh, one of our girls, no doubt.

I haven't asked her--never thought again about it." "And what's her record ?" "Nothing dramatic in it, I'm glad to say.

At one time she had an engagement in London for a year or two.

Her people, 'poor but honest'-- as the stories put it.