Belmont the distinction of being the most popular person upon the boat.

She was very young--fresh from Smith College--and she still possessed many both of the virtues and of the faults of a child.

She had the frankness, the trusting confidence, the innocent straightforwardness, the high spirits, and also the loquacity and the want of reverence.

But even her faults caused amusement, and if she had preserved many of the characteristics of a clever child, she was none the less a tall and handsome woman, who looked older than her years on account of that low curve of the hair over the ears, and that fullness of bodice and skirt which Mr.Gibson has either initiated or imitated.

The whisk of those skirts, and the frank, incisive voice and pleasant, catching laugh were familiar and welcome sounds on board of the _Korosko_.