"Pray, who is this Mr. Roberts?" she asked, as they parted company at the foot of the hill. "Where did you make his acquaintance?"
"He is Mrs. Smythe's nephew," Flossy said. "She introduced me to him the other evening."
"The other evening! You seemed to be as well acquainted as though you had spent the summer together."
"Some people have a way of seeming like friends on short acquaintance,"
Flossy said, with grave face and smiling eyes.
"You two missed a good deal by your folly this morning," Ruth said, as they met at dinner. "We had a grand lecture."
"So had we," answered Eurie, significantly, and that was every word she vouchsafed concerning the trip to Palestine.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
MENTAL PROBLEMS.
"Dr. Deems," said Ruth, looking up from her programme with a thoughtful air. "I wonder if he is a man whom I have any special desire to hear?"
You must constantly remember the entire ignorance of these girls on all names and topics that pertained to the religious world. Ruth knew indeed that the gentleman in question was a New York clergyman; that was as far as her knowledge extended.