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CHAPTER VII.

Dick Makes Himself Useful.

The effect of Geoffrey's incidental allusions to Mr. Shinar was to restrain a considerable quantity of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from young Dewy along the drive homeward. And a certain remark he had hazarded to her, in rather too blunt and eager a manner, kept the young lady herself even more silent than Dick. On both sides there was an unwillingness to talk on any but the most trivial subjects, and their sentences rarely took a larger form than could be expressed in two or three words.

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