"Well," Ralph said at last, "I will tell you what I was wondering. You have asked me, and you shall know: I only wondered why your eyelashes were so much darker than your hair."
Winsome Charteris was not in the least disturbed.
"Ministers should occupy their minds with something else," she said, demurely. "What would Mr. Welsh say? I am sure he has never troubled his head about such things. It is not fitting," Winsome said severely.
"But I want to know," said this persistent young man, wondering at himself.
"Well," said Winsome, glancing up with mischief in her eye, "I suppose because I am a very lazy sort of person, and dark window- blinds keep out the light."
"But why are they curled up at the end?" asked unblushingly the author of the remarks upon Eve formerly quoted.
"It is time that you went up and saw my grandmother!" said Winsome, with great composure.
"Juist what I was on the point o' remarkin' mysel'!" said Meg Kissock.