"In this young man.

It's natural, of course; she is always so strong and well, and he is--he seems to be, that is--rather appealing to the--the sympathies." "Yes!" he agreed, bitterly.

"Precisely.

The sympathies!" "Perhaps," she faltered, "perhaps you might feel easier if I could have a little talk with some one ?" "With whom ?" "I had thought of--not going about it too brusquely, of course, but perhaps just waiting for his name to be mentioned, if I happened to be talking with somebody that knew the family--and then I might find a chance to say that I was sorry to hear he'd been ill so much, and--Something of that kind perhaps ?" "You don't know anybody that knows the family." "Yes.

That is--well, in a way, of course, one OF the family.