"Can you keep a secret, Miss Morris? Of course you can! The person is Miss Melbury."(Miss Melbury was a dark woman. It cannot be because I am a fair woman myself--I hope I am above such narrow prejudices as that--but it is certainly true that I don't admire dark women.)"She heard Mr. Sax telling me that you particularly disliked him, " Mrs. Fosdyke proceeded. "And just as you appeared in the hall, she was asking me to find out what your reason was. My own opinion of Mr. Sax, I ought to tell you, doesn't satisfy her; Iam his old friend, and I present him of course from my own favorable point of view. Miss Melbury is anxious to be made acquainted with his faults--and she expected you to be a valuable witness against him."Thus far we had been walking on. We now stopped, as if by common consent, and looked at one another.
