"She did keep coming here!" "But I'd just about decided that it really wouldn't do," Mildred went on.

"She isn't--well, I didn't admire her." "No," her mother assented, and evidently followed a direct connection of thought in a speech apparently irrelevant.

"I understand the young Malone wants to marry Henrietta.

I hope she won't; he seems rather a gross type of person." "Oh, he's just one," Mildred said.

"I don't know that he and Alice Adams were ever engaged--she never told me so.