What do you think ?" The girl stood silent, with lowered eyes, reflecting for a moment.

Then she looked up curiously.
"_Have_ you never been very unhappy ?" "I had a toothache once." She said, unsmiling: "Haven't you ever suffered mentally ?" "No--not seriously.

Oh, I've regretted little secret meannesses--bad temper, jealousy--" "Nothing else?
Have you never experienced deep unhappiness--through death, for example ?" "No, thank God.

My father and mother and sister are living....

It is rather strange," he added, partly to himself, "that the usual troubles and sorrows have so far passed me by.