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"And you?"

"Je n'en sais rien, monsieur"

"Mais je voudrais savoir"

"Pourquoi?"

"To lay a true course by the stars"; he looked at her blue eyes and she laughed easily under the laughing flattery

"You must seek another compass--to-uess her decision in regard to Quarrier; and she partly raised her eyes, looking at him, indolent speculation under the white lids

She liked him already; in fact she had liked few men as well on such brief acquaintance

"You know the , don't you?" she inquired

"Who are they?"

She began: "The Leroy Mortimers?"

"Oh, yes"