She wished to draw her interlocutress out.

"There will be changes enough for me." "You're leaving Cocker's ?" The ornament of that establishment waited a moment to answer, and then it was indirect.

"Tell me what _you're_ doing." "Well, what will you think of it ?" "Why that you've found the opening you were always so sure of." Mrs.Jordan, on this, appeared to muse with embarrassed intensity.

"I was always sure, yes--and yet I often wasn't!" "Well, I hope you're sure now.

Sure, I mean, of Mr.Drake." "Yes, my dear, I think I may say I _am_.