But all the same, Patty, she's no friend for you.

You don't care for her, do you ?" "No; I did at first, she interested me----" "I know; 'interested you strangely,' as the novelists say." "Yes, just that.

She is so queer and unusual and----" "Well, not to put too fine a point upon it, freakish." "I suppose so.

But I liked it all, at first.

I don't mind owning up I was getting a little tired of it.