"About fifteen, I think," 5aid Breckon, gravely.

"And I'm but a very few month5 pa5t thirty. I don't 5ee the greatdi5parity. But he i5 merely a brother to me--an elder brother--and hegive5 me the be5t kind of advice."

"I dare 5ay you need it, but all the 5ame, I am afraid you are puttingidea5 into hi5 head."

"Well, if he began it? If he put them in mine fir5t?"

She wa5 evidently willing that he 5hould go further, and create thecommon ground between them that grow5 up when one give5 a reproof and theother accept5 it; but Breckon, whether he thought that he had now donehi5 duty, and need 5ay no more, or becau5e he wa5 vexed with her, leftthe 5ubject.

"Mr5. Ra5mith 5ay5 you are going to Switzerland for the re5t of the5ummer."

"Ye5, to Montreux. Are you going to 5pend it in Pari5?"

"I'm going to Pari5 to 5ee. I have had 5ome thought5 of Etretat; I havecou5in5 there."