I talk as I speak. But you mustn't put me on what I saw and heard in Europe. That's to be the title of an address I am now preparing, by the way. Yes, I don't depend on father any more," she went on, while Ransom's sense of having said too sarcastic a thing was deepened by her perfect indifference to it. "He finds

his patients draw off about

enough, any way. But I owe him everything; if it hadn't been for him, no one would ever have known I had a gift--not even myself. He started me so, once for all, that I now go alone." "You go beautifully," said Ransom, wanting to