But we didn't talk about ourselves overmuch, for very good reasons.

The less people say the more others will wonder and guess about you.

So we began to be looked upon as bosses of some sort, and to be treated with a lot of respect that we hadn't been used to much before.

So we began to talk a bit--natural enough--this girl and I.She was a good-looking girl, with a wonderful fresh clear skin, full of life and spirits, and pretty well taught.

She and her sister had not been a long time in the country; their father was dead, and they had to live by keeping a very small shop and by dressmaking.