It was really ill-luck that some one else than Douglas Falloden could not have been found to look after her riding.
* * * * * "I suppose you will be 'doing' the Eights all next week ?" said Herbert Pryce to the eldest Miss Hooper.
Alice coldly replied that she supposed it was necessary to take Connie to all the festivities.
"What!--such a _blase_ young woman! She seems to have been everywhere and seen everything already.

She will be able to give you and Miss Nora all sorts of hints," said the mathematical tutor, with a touch of that patronage which was rarely absent from his manner to Alice Hooper.

He was well aware of her interest in him, and flattered by it; but, to do him justice, he had not gone out of his way to encourage it.

She had been all very well, with her pretty little French face, before this striking creature, her cousin, appeared on the scene.

And now of course she was jealous--that was inevitable.