“Never. She went off to Europe and nobody ever knew a thing about it.”

“How did you know about it?”—suspiciously.

“Oh, I am my father’s confidante,” boasted Isabelle. “We tell each other everything.”

“Does he still love her?”

“Oh, yes; he will bear the marks to his grave.”

A sigh of sentimental satisfaction went around.

“I wish my father was interesting like that,” sighed Peggy.

It was in the spring when romance was in the very air, that a motor honked up the hill, and Wally inquired for Isabelle. Mrs. Benjamin received him.

“I’m anxious about Isabelle,” he said, early in their talk.

“Anxious?”