It was hardly in her nature patiently to brook a rival, but she dissembled with all the art of a clever woman, smiling happily up into his face as their eyes again met.
"It is very interesting to know that you two met in so unconventional a way," she ventured, softly, "and so sly of her not even to mention it to me.

We are room-mates, you know, and consequently quite intimate, although she possesses many peculiar characteristics which I cannot in the least approve.

But after all, Naida is really a good-hearted girl enough, and she will probably outgrow her present irregular ways, for, indeed, she is scarcely more than a child.

I shall certainly do my best to guide her aright.

Would you mind giving me some details of your meeting ?" For a moment he hesitated, feeling that if the girl had not seen fit to confide her adventure to this particular friend, it was hardly his place to do so.