There's Ferdy Wickersham--handsome, elegant manners, very ri--with fine prospects every way, devoted to you for ever so long.

I don't care for his mother, but his people are now received everywhere.

Why-- ?" "Mamma, I would not marry Ferdy Wickersham if he were the last man in--to save his life--not for ten millions of dollars.

And he does not care for me." "Why, he is perfectly devoted to you," insisted Mrs.Yorke.
"Ferdy Wickersham is not perfectly devoted to any one except himself--and never will be," asserted Alice, vehemently.

"If he ever cared for any one it is Louise Caldwell." Mrs.Yorke shifted her ground.
"There's Norman Wentworth?
One of the best--" "Ah! I don't love Norman.