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"Seems to me you're getting inquisitive. He's about forty and she's a few years younger."
"Oh!"
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"Just so! Then, in the brick cottage
with the covered porch, there is
Merrill Link. Want to know about
him?"
"No, thanks."
"Then come the Beatties, mother and daughter."
"Artists?"
"No; you ought to know Mrs. Beattie; she's one of these passionate poetesses you read about. The daughter dabbles in art, I believe."
"Dabbles!" said Miles, indignantly. "Much you know about it!"
"Eh? You know her, then?"
"No, I don't."
"Well, then, how do you know whether she dabbles or not? Maybe
