"Talking too much! I guess you did," said the doctor; "your tongue is like
'the music of the spheres, So loud it deafens human ears.'
How came you to talk too much? I thought you were too shy to talk at all in company."
"No, Sir, I am not; I am not at all shy unless people frighten me. It takes almost nothing to do that; but I am very bold if I am not frightened."
"Were you frightened this afternoon?"
"No, Sir?"
"Well, if you weren't frightened, I guess nobody else was," said the doctor.
CHAPTER IX.
"Whence came this?
This is some token from a newer friend."
SHAKESPEARE.
The snow-flakes were falling softly and thick when Fleda got up the next morning.