And such a girl-woman as Kate has a twofold hold on other people--she is loved as a woman and petted as a child.
Albert Charlton knew that for her to love was for her to give herself away without thought, without reserve, almost without the possibility of revocation.

Because he was so oppressed with dread in regard to the young man who walked and boated with Katy, courted and caressed her, but about the seriousness of whose intentions the mother seemed to have some doubt--because of the very awfulness of his apprehensions, he dared not ask Kate anything.
The suspense was not for long.

On the second evening after Albert's return, Smith Westcott, the chief clerk, the agent in charge of the branch store of Jackson, Jones & Co., in Metropolisville, called at the house of Plausaby.

Mr.Smith Westcott was apparently more than twenty-six, but not more than thirty years of age, very well-dressed, rather fast-looking, and decidedly _blase_.

His history was written in general but not-to-be-misunderstood terms all over his face.