Have you seen him, Eva ?" "Yes; and he had such a kind, fatherly manner toward me, that I fell in love with him at once.

I believe I'd be glad to have him adopt me if he was badly in want of another daughter about my age," she added, with a merry look and smile.
"I believe he'd be the gainer if he could swap me off for you," said Lulu, catching her friend's tone; "but I'm very happy in feeling quite sure he would rather have me, bad as I am, just because I am his own." "That makes all the difference in the world," said Evelyn; "and perhaps, on becoming acquainted with my faults, he might think them worse than yours." It was not quite school-time when they reached Ion, and Evelyn proposed that they should spend the few intervening minutes in the grounds.
"I'd like to, ever so much," said Lulu; "but papa bade me go directly to my own room on getting home.

So good-by," and she moved on resolutely in the direction of the house.
"Good-by.

I'll see you again when school is out, if I can," Evelyn called after her.
Lulu's thoughts were so full of other things, she found great difficulty in fixing them upon her lessons.

But saying to herself that it would be much too bad to fail in her first recitations to her father, she exerted her strong will to the utmost, and succeeded.