"Why, she was in society while I was a schoolgirl! Yes, dear Lillie is certainly twenty-seven, if not more; but she keeps her freshness wonderfully." "Well, she looks fresh enough, I suppose, to a good, honest, artless fellow like John Seymour, who knows as little of the world as a milkmaid.

John is a great, innocent, country steer, fed on clover and dew; and as honest and ignorant of all sorts of naughty, wicked things as his mother or sister.

He takes Lillie in a sacred simplicity quite refreshing; but to me Lillie is played out.

I know her like a book.

I know all her smiles and wiles, advices and devices; and her system of tactics is an old story with me.