I have not outgrown mine." "I beg your pardon," said she, with vibrations of strong feeling in her words.

"I have been placed in a position which hinders such outgrowings.

Besides, I don't believe that the genuine subjects of emotion do outgrow them; I believe that the older such people get the worse they are.

Possibly at ninety or a hundred they may feel they are cured; but a mere threescore and ten won't do it--at least for me." He gazed at her in undisguised admiration.

Here was a soul of souls! "Mrs.Charmond, you speak truly," he exclaimed.