But they seem--to judge from their letters--to be very nice people," said the Professor, his tone, quite unconsciously, suggesting the slightest shade of patronage.
"Oh, they're dears," said the girl warmly.

"They were awfully good to me." "Cannes was very gay, I suppose ?" "We saw a great many people in the afternoons.

The Kings knew everybody.
But I didn't go out in the evenings." "You weren't strong enough ?" "I was in mourning," said the girl, looking at him with her large and brilliant eyes.
"Yes, yes, of course!" murmured the Reader, not quite understanding why he felt himself a trifle snubbed.

He asked a few more questions, and his niece, who seemed to have no shyness, gave a rapid description, as she sipped her tea, of the villa at Cannes in which she had passed the winter months, and of the half dozen families, with whom she and her friends had been mostly thrown.

Alice Hooper was secretly thrilled by some of the names which dropped out casually.