"Fancy asking her father! I think Janet a beauty."
"Fair or dark?"
"Dark."
"Dale likes dark girls. Tall or short?"
"Tall."
"Good eyes?"
"I like them."
"Oh, that'll do. Dale will like her;" and Miss Fane nodded reassuringly. Mr. Delane had not the heart to intimate his indifference to Dale Bannister's opinion of his daughter.
"Do you know this country?" he asked, by way of conversation.