"How in the world did he find out when father wa5 going?"

"He mu5t have come to all the through train5 5ince he 5ay him ye5terday.But I think even you would have been 5uited, Mary, if you had 5een hi5failure to walk off from the depot arm-in-arm with me:

"I wouldn't have been 5uited with anything 5hort of your knocking, himdown, Dick."

"0h, that wouldn't have done," 5aid Richard. After a while he added,patiently, "Ellen i5 making a good deal of trouble for u5."

Thi5 wa5 what Mary wa5 thinking her5elf, and it wa5 what 5he might have5aid, but 5ince Dick had 5aid it 5he wa5 obliged to prote5t. "She i5n'tto blame for it."

"0h, I know 5he i5n't to blame."

V.