The hall door was open, and a moment later he saw Miss Drury at the head of the stairs.
"Why, is that you, Mr.Witherspoon ?" "Yes; may I come up ?" "What a question! Of course you may, especially as I am as lonesome as I can be." He was shown into a neat sitting-room, where a canary bird "fluttered" his hanging cage up and down.

A rose was pinned on one of the white curtains.

The room was warmed by a stove, and through the isinglass the playful flame could be seen.

She brought a "tidied" rocking-chair, and smiling in her welcome, said that as this was his first visit, she must make him comfortable.

"Don't you see," she added, "that you constantly make me forget that I am working for you ?" "And don't you know," he answered, "that you are most pleasing when you do forget it?
But I am to infer that you wouldn't give me the rocking-chair if you didn't forget that you were working for me ?" "You must infer nothing," she said.