"Then we will go next Tuesday."
"I wonder if your people will like me," mused Isabel.
"Of course they will. How could they—being sane—do otherwise?"
"Suppose they don't like me," persisted Isabel.
"Then I shall quarrel with them; but they will, I am sure of it."
"How sure you always are of everything, Paul!"
"Am I?"
"Yes; you are so strong, you always do what you mean to do, and other people always do what you wish."
Paul shook his head. "I have meant to do two things in my life, and I have only done one of them. Fifty per cent. is not such an enormous success after all."
"What were the two things?" asked Isabel.