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- ple like, to write well—and to sell
well?"
"Oh! Then I am not incognito to you?"
She laughed softly, and the sun-bonnet moved from side to side.
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"No. You see, Maple Green is not
so large that a new-comer can remain
long a mystery."
"I see. I am sorry, though; I had hoped you would mistake me for a wandering Person of Importance, perchance even for a—a prince."
"No,"—she raised her face and observed him gravely for a long moment,—"no, I don't think I should have mistaken you for a prince."
"Oh, I say! Why not, now? Really, princes aren't so different from the rest of us."
"Perhaps, but—you don't look like a prince."
