"Do you like him, Nanda ?" She showed surprise at the question.

"How can I know so soon ?" "HE knows already." Mitchy, with his eyes on her, became radiant to interpret.

"He knows that he's pierced to the heart!" "The matter with him, as you call it," Vanderbank brought out, "is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen." He looked at her as with a hope she'd understand.

"Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!" "Precisely," Mitchy continued; "the victim done for by one glance of the goddess!" Nanda, motionless in her chair, fixed her other friend with clear curiosity.

"'Beautiful'?
Why beautiful ?" Vanderbank, about to speak, checked himself.
"I won't spoil it.