"'You!' shouted her grandmother, in deadly terror. Doubtless the wretched child had come to confide in her the addresses of some booby of a neighbour.
"'Yes.' continued Hertha, inarticulately and with great hesitation; 'with my big fortune I am not likely to be an old maid.'
"'Child!' exclaimed the old lady, 'of whom are you thinking?'
"Hertha blushed to her neck. 'I?' she stammered, trying to preserve an indifferent tone of voice, 'of nobody.'
"'Oh, then you were merely talking generally?'
"'Of course; I only meant generally'
"'Well, and what do you want to know?'
"'I want to know--how it is with--you understand--with love when one----'
"'When one----'
"'Well, when one is married?'