'You like him?'
'I could use a warmer word. He knew me when I was a girl.'
She wound the strings of his heart suddenly tense, and they sang to their quivering.
'You will let me hear of you, Mr. Weyburn?'
'I will write. Oh! certainly I will write, if I am told you are interested in our doings, Lady Ormont.'
'I will let you know that I am.'
'I shall be happy in writing full reports.'
'Every detail, I beg. All concerning the school. Help me to feel I am a boarder. I catch up an old sympathy I had for girls and boys. For boys! any boys! the dear monkey boys! cherub monkeys! They are so funny. I am sure I never have laughed as I did at Selina Collett's report, through her brother, of the way the boys tried to take to my name; and their sneezing at it, like a cat at a deceitful dish. "Aminta"—was that their way?'
'Something—the young rascals!'
'But please repeat it as you heard them.'