"You are right. I do not know her surname."
"How did you find it out—I mean Robert's love affair?"
Isabel described the discovery of the velvet-bound Bible while Christina listened with greedy interest. "You know, Christina," she added, "that a young man on his engagement always gives the girl a Bible."
"Yes, I know; even servant girls get a Bible when they are engaged. Our Maggie and Kitty did; they showed them to me. Do the men swear their love and promises on them?"
"I should not wonder. If so, a great many are soon forsworn!"
"Is that all you know, Isabel?"
"Four times this week she has written to Robert. I saw the letters in the mail."
"Love letters, I suppose?"
"No doubt of it."
"How immodest! Do you know where she lives?"