How long are you staying here, Uncle Archie ?" "I ought to be off at the end of the week; and of course you want to get back to New York?
I say, you seemed to be getting on with that young lady ?" The General turned a rather troubled eye upon his companion.
"She wasn't bad fun," said the young man graciously; "but rather an odd little thing! We quarrelled about every conceivable subject.

And it's queer how much that kind of girl seems to go about in America.

She goes everywhere and knows everything.

I wonder how she manages it." "What kind of girl do you suppose she is ?" asked the General, stopping suddenly in the middle of Lafayette Square.
"She told me she taught singing," said Roger, in a puzzled voice, "to a class of girls in New York." The General laughed.
"She seems to have made a fool of you, my dear boy.

She is one of the great heiresses of America." Roger's face expressed a proper astonishment.
"Oh! that's it, is it?
I thought once or twice there was something fishy--she was trying it on.