"He has given us a very delightful evening, and I, for one, am much obliged to him." "_Et moi aussi"_ murmured Henrietta, wreathing her large beautiful arms about her friend, and the two sauntered away.
Mary Leighton, in general ill-humor, and still remembering the walk of the last evening, desired to fire a parting-shot, and exclaimed, as she went out, "Well, I think it is something to us; I like to have gentlemen about me." "You need not be uneasy," said Mrs.Hollenbeck, a little stiffly.

"I think Mr.Langenau is a gentleman." But at this moment his step was heard in the hall below, and there was an end put to the conversation..