only to one's mother and sister. It is dull though one does not
oneself recognise it to be so. A little change in such matters is
so very pleasant. Susan had not the slightest idea of regarding
Aaron as even a possible lover. But young ladies do like the
conversation of young gentlemen. Oh, my exceedingly proper prim old
lady, you who are so shocked at this as a general doctrine, has it
never occurred to you that the Creator has so intended it?

Susan understanding little of the how and why, knew that she had had
a good time, and was rather in spirits as she went to bed. But
Hetta had been frightened by the dodge.

"Oh, Hetta, you should have looked at those drawings. He is so
clever!" said Susan.

"I don't know that they would have done me much good," replied
Hetta.

"Good! Well, they'd do me more good than a long sermon, I know,"
said Susan; "except on a Sunday, of course," she added
apologetically. This was an ill-tempered attack both on Hetta and
Hetta's admirer. But then why had Hetta been so snappish?

"I'm sure he's a wolf;" thought Hetta as she went to bed.

"What a very clever young man he is!" thought Susan to herself as
she pulled the warm clothes round about her shoulders and ears.

"Well that certainly was an improvement," thought Aaron as he went
through the same operation, with a stronger feeling of self-