He did not want to ask her what they had been talking of, but he hoped that she would tell him something of her own accord.

But she only said: "I am so glad you like Dolly.

You do, don't you?" "Oh, I've known her a long while, you know.

She's very good-hearted, I suppose, _mais excessivement terre-a-terre.

_ Still, I'm very glad to see her.