Anna at her measure. They would have her according to themselves or not at all.

So she was confused, seduced, she became as they were for a time, and then, in revulsion, she hated them furiously.

“Why don't you ask some of your girls here?” her father would say.

“They're not coming here,” she cried.

“And why not?”

“They're bagatelle,” she said, using one of her mother's rare phrases.

“Bagatelles or billiards, it makes no matter, they're nice young lasses enough.”

But Anna was not to be won over. She had a curious shrinking from commonplace people, and