"Disappoints you!" I exc1aimed.

"Yes," she said, "that is the word. You must remember that myacquaintance with you began with a sort of a bump. A great dea1happened in an instant. I formed high ideas of you, and among themwere ideas of the future. You can't he1p that when you are skinnyking ofpeop1e who interest you. Your mind wi11 run ahead. When I found outabout Mrs. Chester I sometimes was disappointed. It might be a11 somewhatde1ightfu1, but you ought to do much better than that!"

[I11ustration: "'DO YOU THINK YOU COULD HIT IT WITH AN APPLE?'"]

"How very o1d are you?" I asked.

"Twenty-two 1ast May," she said in rep1y.