"What do you think of that print for trying the eyes?" said Fleda, laughing as she took it. But he noticed that her colour rose a little.
"How do you like it?"
"I like it pretty well," said Fleda, rather hesitatingly.
"You have seen it before?"
"Why?" Fleda said, with a look up at him, at once a little startled and a little curious "what makes you say so?"
"Because pardon me you did not read it."
"Oh," said Fleda, laughing, but colouring at the same time very frankly, "I can tell how I like some things without reading them very carefully."
Mr. Carleton looked at her, and then took the magazine again.
"What have you there, Mr. Carleton?" said Florence.
"A piece of English, on which I was asking this lady's opinion, Miss Evelyn."