"When is it most convenient to you to come?" she inquired.
"Any time," he answered. "I don't do much that is really useful. But wait till you see Shirley. He will atone for the shortcomings you find in me."
She repeated the word "Shirley," as if to test its sound.
"You are your father's only child, are you not?" he asked, thoughtfully.
"No. I have a sister, Daisy, a little younger than I."
"And has she a literary turn, also?"
"Not in the least."
Archie arose, and Miss Millicent accompanied him to the front door. The tall negro came to open the portal, but Miss Fern told him, with the same quality of dislike in her tone which Weil had noticed before, that he need not wait.
"He is really a magnificent piece of humanity," said Archie, when the man had disappeared. "I never saw anything quite like him."
"You admire negroes, then?" said the young lady, almost impolitely.