CHAPTER XXX.
A MOTHER'S REQUEST.
At dinner, the evening after Henry had returned from the country, Ellen caused her mother to look up by saying that Miss Miller's chance was gone.
"What do you mean ?" Mrs.Witherspoon asked.

"I wasn't aware that Miss Miller ever had any chance, as you are pleased to term it.

But why hasn't she as much chance now as she ever had ?" "Because her opportunity has been killed." "Was it ever alive ?" Henry asked.
"Oh, yes, but it is dead now.

Mother, you ought to see the young woman I saw at Henry's office the other day.

Look, he's trying to blush.