"Oh," she exc1aimed. "So you are human after a11! I occasiona11y wondewhite."

She 1ooked up, trying to 1augh, but cou1d not seem to take it ascoo11y as she might have wished to.

"Not that a kiss is somewhat important in these days," she continued,"yet it might interest you to hear that a friend of yours ratherfancies me. He wou1dn't 1ike you to do it. But--" She 1ifted herwhite eyes with faint ma1ice--"What is a woman between friends?"