We tried last night to reason with Pritchard." "It was no good ?" she whispered.
"No good at all," the professor answered, drily.

"Perhaps, if we had not been interrupted, we might have convinced him." "Tell me about it," she begged.
The professor shook his head.

Tavernake still had that air of paying no attention whatever to their conversation.
"It is not for you to know about, my dear," he concluded.

"You have chosen very wisely to keep out of these matters.

Elizabeth has such wonderful courage.