"If ye'd like to wait a while——"
He offered her the chair, but Beth did not accept it.
"Ye don't happen to be Miss Peggy McGuire, do ye?" asked the stranger curiously.
"No," replied the girl. "My name is Beth Cameron."
"Beth——?"
"Cameron," she finished firmly.
"Oh——"
The stranger seemed to be examining her with a glowing interest, but his look was clouded.
Beth had decided that until Peter came explaining she had no further possible interest either in him or his affairs, but in spite of this she found her lips suddenly asking,
"Are you a friend of Mr. Nichols's?"