Erson, was quite unable to discover, and he was divided between amazement at the rapidity of her induction and amusement at the frankness of her persiflage. She seemed to him, in all this, an extraordinary mixture of innocence and crudity. "Does she never allow you more than three days at a time?" asked Daisy ironically. "Doesn't she give you a vacation in summer?

There's no one so hard worked but they can get leave to go off somewhere at this season. I suppose, if you stay another day, she'll come after you in the

boat. Do wait over till Friday, and I will go down to the landing to see
her arrive!" Winterbourne began to think he had been wrong to
feel disappointed
in the temper in which the young lady had embarked. If
he had missed the personal accent, the personal accent was now making its appearance. It sounded very distinctly, at last, in her telling
him she would stop
"teasing" him if he would pro