I have never seen a woman yet whose beauty satisfied ME." Mrs.Waldeaux leaned back with a comfortable little laugh.

"But you must not be so hard to please, my son.

You must bring me my daughter soon," she said.
"Not very soon.

I have some thing else to think of than marriage for the next ten years." Just then Dr.Watts came up and asked leave to present his friend Perry.

The doctor, like all young men who knew Mrs.Waldeaux, had succumbed to her peculiar charm, which was only that of a woman past her youth who had strong personal magnetism and not a spark of coquetry.