my faith in you. If I couldn't trust you, I don't know what I
should do."

"What are you after now, Isabel?"

"I am not after anything. I want you to go round to all the hotels
and see if there is not some young man you know at one of them.
There surely must be."

"Would one young man be enough?"

"If he were attentive enough, he would be. One young man is as good
as a thousand if the girl is the right kind."

"But you have just been implying that Miss Gage is cold and selfish
and greedy. Shall I go round exploring hotel registers for a victim
to such a divinity as that?"

"No; you needn't go till I have had a talk with her. I am not sure
she is worth it; I am not sure that I want to do a single thing for
her."



CHAPTER VII



The next day, after another forenoon's shopping with her friends,
Mrs. March announced: "Well, now, it has all come out, Basil, and I