"I should just like the chance to tell my story up there," continued Dolly, fervently.
Kimberly turned to Alice: "All that Dolly fears," said he, in an aside, "is that heaven will prove a disappointment. But to change the subject from heaven abruptly--you are from the West, Mrs. MacBirney."
"Do you find the change so abrupt? and must I confess again to the West?"
"Not if you feel it incriminates you."
"But I don't," protested Alice with spirit.
"Has your home always been there?"
"Yes, in St. Louis; and it is a very dear old place. Some of my early married life was spent much farther West."
"How much farther?"
"So much that I can hardly make anybody comprehend it--Colorado."
"How so?"