Keith laughed.
"No; not so heavy as that--yet."
"So heavy as that yet! Oh, you are engaged?"
"No; not engaged either--except engaged in trying to make a lot of people who think they know everything understand that there are a few things that they don't know."
"That is a difficult task," she said, shaking her head, "if you try it in New York."
"'John P. Robinson, he
Says they don't know everything down in Judee,'"
put in the stout young man who had been standing by waiting to speak to her.
"But this isn't Judee yet," she laughed, "for I assure you we do know everything here, Mr. Keith." She held out her hand to the gentleman who had spoken, and after greeting him introduced him to Keith as "Mr. Stirling."
"You ought to like each other," she said cordially.
Keith professed his readiness to do so.