"
"But I don't think she knows it's only his way. Just watch her the
next time we meet her when Harry is there, and see how she crimsons,
and looks another way when she feels he is coming up to her. I
think he sees it, too, and I think he is pleased with it."
"I dare say Harry would like well enough to turn the head of such a
lovely girl as Jane Richardson. But I'm not convinced that he's in
love, whatever she may be."
"Well, then!" said Sophy indignantly, "though it is our own brother,
I do not think he is behaving very wrongly. The more I think of it,
the more sure I am that she thinks he means something, and that he
intends her to think so. And then, when he leaves off paying her
attention"--
"Which will be as soon as a prettier girl makes her appearance,"
interrupted Helen.
"As soon as he leaves off paying her attention," resumed Sophy, "she
will have many and many a heartache, and then she will harden
herself into being a flirt, a feminine flirt, as he is a masculine
flirt. Poor girl!"
"I don't like to hear you speak so of Harry," said Amy, looking up
at Sophy.
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