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 But Charlotte wasn't old-fashioned for nothing. "I feel I ought to go," she said.

At that, Mrs. Phair gave her husband one of her significant glances, and they went out on the veranda, leaving Perry and Charlotte together.

"Did you notice him, Joe?" whispered Mrs. Phair, outside.

"Notice who?" whispered back Mr. Phair, with a fine disregard for grammar.

"Perry Graham, of course! At first I hated to think of Charlotte's going; but now I can see it's the very best thing she could do. It's going to bring Perry to the point."

"You think so?"

"Joe, I know it! And the best thing that could happen to him, too. Of course everybody thinks he ought to marry a girl with a lot of money. But that's all nonsense, when he's got so much of his own. Besides, it isn't as if