"I find her very attractive." "Well, I do not." Mrs.Culpeper had relapsed into her tone of habitual martyrdom.

"If Stephen chooses to kill me," she added, "he may do it." Corinna leaned toward her ingratiatingly.

"Don't you admit, Cousin Harriet, that I have improved Patty tremendously ?" "I see no difference." "Oh, but there is one--a great difference! If you had come to one of the Governor's receptions last winter, you couldn't have told that she wasn't--well, one of us.

She has been so quick to pick up things that it is amazing." Mrs.Culpeper lifted the transparent mesh from the point of her nose.
"Do you know," she demanded, "that the girl was born in a circus tent ?" "So I have heard.

It was a romantic beginning." Foiled but undaunted, the older woman fixed on Corinna the stare with which she would have attempted the conversion of an undraped pagan if she had ever encountered one.