To his astonishment, she replied: “There I cannot agree with you. In it I spy Lucy's salvation.”

“Really. Now, why?”

“She wanted to leave Windy Corner.”

“I know — but it seems so odd, so unlike her, so — I was going to say — selfish.”

“It is natural, surely — after such painful scenes — that she should desire a change.”

Here, apparently, was one of those points that the male intellect misses. Mr. Beebe exclaimed: “So she says herself, and since another lady agrees with her, I must own that I am partially convinced. Perhaps she must have a change. I have no sisters or — and I don't understand these things. But why need she go as far as Greece?”