"There's something queer about Azalea.

Little Billee has said so from the first, and now I begin to see it, too." "She _is_ queer," assented Elise, "but she's so much nicer than she was at first.

Ray Gale is very devoted to her." "I know it.

I like Ray, too, but sometimes,--think,--he knows something about her that he won't tell us." "For mercy's sake,--what do you mean?
knows something about your own cousin that you don't know!" "Oh, Zaly isn't our own cousin, you know.

But--well, never mind now, Elise.