So I believe that the ^hereditary habit will drag Stephen safely back before he rushes into danger.

He may play with the thought of Patty, but he will probably marry Margaret." If Mrs.Culpeper's too refined features could have expressed passion, it would have been the passion of thankfulness.

"It was worth coming," she said, "to hear you say that of Stephen." When at last she had gone, primly grateful for the scrap of comfort, Corinna stood for a minute with her eyes on the sunbeams at the window.
Outside there were the roving winds and the restless spirit of April; and feeling suddenly that she could stand the close walls and the familiar objects no longer, she put on her hat and gloves and went out into the street.

Scarcely knowing why, with some vague thought that she might go to see Patty, she turned in the direction of the Capitol Square, walking with her buoyant grace which seemed a part of the fugitive beauty of April.

The air was so fragrant, the sunshine so softly burning, that it was as if summer were advancing, not gradually, but in a single miracle of florescence.