“I’ve quarrelled with Logan.”

She was silent for a moment or two, and then she said:—

“I’m so glad.”

“You didn’t like him. Why?”

“I thought him second-rate.”

“He isn’t that. He has a good mind, and he was a good friend.”

“Are you so sure of that?”

“Of some things in him—of his affection, for instance—I am as sure as I am of myself.”

She smiled at him.

“Yes. That is saying a good deal. But why did you quarrel?”