You have wonderful color.

Your eyes--there never was anything so clear.

You were always straight--that was one of the things I admired about you.

But now, you seem to be straight without the slightest effort--the natural straightness of a sapling." This was most agreeable, for she loved compliments, liked to discover that the charms which she herself saw in herself were really there.

But encouraging such talk was not compatible with the course she had laid out for herself with him.