Perhaps some day I'll be able to tell it properly.

It's very beautiful--but it might sound very ridiculous if it wasn't told just exactly the right way." "I don't know what you mean, and I don't believe you know yourself," said Felicity pettishly.

"All that I can make out is that Miss Reade is going to marry Jasper Dale, and I don't like the idea one bit.

She is so beautiful and sweet.

I thought she'd marry some dashing young man.
Jasper Dale must be nearly twenty years older than her--and he's so queer and shy--and such a hermit." "Miss Reade is perfectly happy," said the Story Girl.