That was when he believed that she was a teacher, earning her bread.

But the impudence had not prevented him from finding it much more amusing to talk to her than to anybody else.
And, on the whole, he thought she had not disliked him, though she had said the rudest things to him, and he had retaliated.

She had asked him, indeed, to join them in an excursion the following day, and to tea at the Country Club.

He had meant, if possible, to go back to New York on the morrow.

But perhaps a day or two longer---- So she had a million--the little sprite?
She was and would be a handful!--with a fortune or without it.