We have been always on each other's tracks without meeting. Yet I think, if we had met, we could have kept our tempers." "Miss Boyce, I think you do not know Mr.Wharton," said Aldous, stiffly. "May I introduce you ?" The young man's blue eyes, all alert and curious at the mention of Marcella's name, ran over the girl's face and form.
Then he bowed with a certain charming exaggeration--like an eighteenth-century beau with his hand upon his heart--and turned back with them a step or two towards the road..