"Yes I did. O I enjoyed a great many things. I enjoyed being with the Evelyns. You don't know how much they made of me,--every one of them,--father and mother and all the three daughters--and uncle Orrin. I have been well petted, I can tell you, since I have been gone."
"I am glad they shewed so much discrimination," said Hugh; "they would be puzzled to make too much of you."
"I must have been in a remarkably discriminating society," said Fleda, "for everybody was very kind!"
"How do you like the Evelyns on a nearer view?"
"Very much indeed; and I believe they really love me. Nothing could possibly be kinder, in all ways of shewing kindness. I shall never forget it."
"Who were you driving with that day?" said Hugh.
"Mr. Thorn."
"Did you see much of him?"
"Quite as much as I wished. Hugh--I took your advice."
"About what?" said Hugh.