“I suppose I should have shivered and been angry!” she replied, simply.
“Then,” he said, giving her hand a little pat, “aren’t you glad I didn’t?”
“Naturally.”
From her complacent tone he might have been asking the question, “Do you prefer wealth to poverty?”
CHAPTER V.
Dinner at the de Freville’s.
“Her voice, whate’er she said, enchanted;
Like music to the heart it went.
And her dark eyes—how eloquent!