"Though I have."
"You have, indeed!"
"I think so. She has a friend, named Mary Graham, whom I think far more interesting."
"Pray introduce me."
"I will, when opportunity offers."
Not long afterward an introduction took place, and Ashton spent a short time in the company of Mary Graham.
"That's your lovely woman," said the young man to his friend, in a tone of contempt, when they next met.
"To me she is exceedingly interesting," returned Erskine.
"Interesting! A duller piece of human ware it has not been my fortune to meet for these dozen years. I should say she has no soul."
"There you are mistaken. She is all soul."