She responded appreciatively to his thought and fancy, and gave him back in kind with interest.

She began to question him about a place in Europe with which he was familiar, and showed such unusual knowledge of the locality that he asked, "You haven't slipped over there unknown to me, I trust ?" "You might think of an easier explanation than that.

You kindly sent me books, some of which were rather realistic." "Did you read them all ?" "Certainly.

It would have been a poor return if I had not." "What an inordinate sense of duty you must have had!" "I did not read them from a sense of duty.

You have perhaps forgotten that I am fond of books." "Not all of the books were novels." "Many that were not proved the most interesting." "Oh, indeed; another evidence of change," he said, laughing.
"And of sense, too, I think.