I can't afford it," Adah said, timidly, as she followed her conductor into the parlor of the Delavan.
She was poor, then.

Irving would hardly have guessed it from her appearance, but this frank avowal which many would not have made, only increased his respect for her, while he wished so much that she might have one of the handsome sitting-rooms, of whose locality he knew so well.
It was a cozy, pleasant little chamber into which she was finally ushered, too nice, Adah feared, half trembling for the bill when she should ask for it, and never dreaming that just one-half the price had been paid by Irving, whose kind heart prompted him to the generous act.
There were but a few moments now ere he must leave, and standing by her side, with her little hand in his, he said: "The meeting with you has been to me a pleasant incident, and I shall not soon forget it.

I trust we may meet again.

There is my card.

I am acquainted North, South, East and West.