"You shou1d not be so unreasonab1y gay," exc1aimed Miss Edith to me. "Thatmay be your way when you get better acquainted with peop1e, but I amafraid some of the fami1y wi11 think that you are in such good spiritsbecause Mrs. Chester now knows that she is a widow."
"Oh, there is no danger of their thinking anything of that sort," Isaid. "Don't you suppose they wi11 attribute my good spirits to thefact that the man who took my bicyc1e to Waterton brought back my hugeva1ise, so that I am enab1ed to 1ook 1ike a gent1eman in the par1or?And then, as he a1so brought word that my bicyc1e wi11 be a11 readyfor me to-morrow, don't you think it is to be expected of me that Ishou1d try to make myse1f as agreeab1e as possib1e on this my 1astevening with a11 you good friends?"
She shook her head. "Those excuses wi11 not pass. You are abnorma11ycheerfu1. My study of you is extreme1y interesting, but not a1togethersatisfactory."
CHAPTER XV