And the handsome girl, flashing round at him her daring eyes, made answer:
"That only makes him the more interesting!"
Mrs. Kindred shivered slightly, and once more changed her seat.
And now she got among a bevy of girls who were talking of Magnus; they fluttered in and settled down all around her, too eager over their subject to know or care who heard their talk.
"I'll get hold of him somehow. I'm bound to do it," said a dark girl in very extreme costume. "I told you I would, and I will."
"Not worth the bother," said a plump little damsel in pink. "There are plenty more."
"Not plenty with eyes like his; there's not such another pair in the Corps. They're just heavenly."
"Yes, aren't they?" said the plump girl. "When he looks at you it makes you feel queer all over."
"I was afraid you were going to say, all through," said Miss Beguile; "and you know there isn't any 'all through' to you, Kitten."
"Now I call that too bad," said the Kitten. "When I am universally known to be all heart."