"Yes, and Miss Betty more especially."
"She is the worker, too."
"It's not on that account, though perhaps it is a recommendation; but her being a worker doesn't prevent your Uncle Job going there very often."
"Uncle Job, is he paying her attention?" I asked, not much surprised, remembering what I had seen at the steamboat landing.
"Yes, he is desperately in love with her; and she is worthy of it, too," Constance answered.
"I'm sure she is; and does she care for him?" I asked.
"I think so, but she is so full of her pretty ways and love of everybody that I can't tell. Sometimes I think she favors him very much, and then I don't know."
"Is there any one else who pays her attention?" I asked, interested at once in Uncle Job's suit.
"Yes, his partner, Mr. Rathe, is madly in love with her, they say, though she doesn't give him any encouragement," she answered.
"I didn't know Uncle Job had a partner," I responded, surprised, I know not why, but more that there should be rivalry between them in such a matter; "what has he got a partner for, anyway?"