People will stand them from a Lang or a Stevenson or that 'Obiter Dicta' fellow--not from an unknown young lady." Elfrida bit her lip.

"Of course I am not any of those." "Miss Bell has done some idyllic verse," volunteered Golightly.
The girl looked at him with serious reprobation.

"I did not give you permission to say that," she said gravely.
"No--forgive me!--but it's true, Rattray." He searched in his breast pocket and brought out a diminutive pocket-book.

"May I show those two little things I copied ?" he begged, selecting a folded sheet of letter-paper from its contents.

"This is serious, you know, really.