She said she wished you to have me all to yourself." No, decidedly, she wasn't shy: that mute reflexion was in the air an instant.

"That, no doubt, is the best way.

I thank her very much.

I called, after having had the honour of dining--I called, I think, three times," he went on with a sudden displacement of the question; "but I had the misfortune each time to miss her." She kept looking at him with her crude young clearness.

"I didn't know about that.