"What is it?"
"I didn't know you were asleep."
"I wasn't. What were you going to say?"
"Oh, nothing in particular—was just going to ask what you think of a man who lives a lie?"
"I should think," Richmond answered, "that he must be a pretty natural sort of a fellow."
CHAPTER XXX.
A MOTHER'S REQUEST.
At dinner, the evening after Henry had returned from the country, Ellen caused her mother to look up by saying that Miss Miller's chance was gone.
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Witherspoon asked. "I wasn't aware that Miss Miller ever had any chance, as you are pleased to term it. But why hasn't she as much chance now as she ever had?"