She flushed a little, hesitated, and then said, looking first at the label and then at Mrs.Colwood: "I think I should like you to know--my name was not always Mallory.

We were Sparlings--but my father took the name of Mallory after my mother's death.

It was _his_ mother's name, and there was an old Mallory uncle who left him a property.

I believe he was glad to change his name.

He never spoke to me of any Sparling relations.