THE APPLE TREE GIRL
and thought over her other two sums before she had found the answers.
"It's so hard to tell about young men," she told herself. "I might meet someone here to-morrow and think he was all right; but he might be married or he might be engaged, and there's hardly any way of finding out unless you ask. And what would Mrs. Phair think if I went around asking: 'Is he single? Is he engaged? Is he rich?' She'd know right away what I meant."
Thus she sat there dreaming and looking out at the moonlight on the water, as girls have sat and dreamed since time immemorial—and on much the same subject. "Besides," she thought, "if I met him here I might never see him again. If I could only think of some romantic way to make his acquaintance—some way he'd never forget!" Again for a long time she sat and dreamed—and then she suddenly laughed, an irrepressible little laugh. "Wouldn't it be
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