"Oh no, Sir," said Fleda, smiling: "I like to have several books that I am reading in at once; I mean at the same time, you know; and then if I am not in the mood of one I take up another."
"She reads them all through," said Hugh, "always, though she reads them very quick."
"Hum I understand," said the old doctor, with a humorous expression, going on with the list.
" 'March 3. 3 Hist. de France.'
"But you finish one of these volumes, I suppose, before you begin another; or do you dip into different parts of the same work at once?"
"Oh no, Sir; of course not!"
" 'Mar. 5. Modern Egyptians. L. E. K. Ap. 13.'
"What are these dates on the right, as well as on the left?"
"Those on the right show when I finished the volume."
"Well, I wonder what you were cut out for!" said the doctor.
"A Quaker! you aren't a Quaker, are you?"