"I don't know so much about that, Archie. Mrs. Jasher is attractive."
Hope laughed. "In a mutton-dressed-as-lamb way, no doubt."
"And she has money. My father is poor and so--"
"You make up a match at once, as every woman will do. Well, let us get
back to the Pyramids, and see how the flirtation is progressing."
Lucy walked on for a few steps in silence. "Do you believe in Mrs.
Bolton's dream, Archie?"
"No! I believe she eats heavy suppers. Bolton will return quite safe; he
is a clever fellow, not easily taken advantage of. Don't bother any more
about Widow Anne and her dismal prophecies."
"I'll try not to," replied Lucy dutifully. "All the same, I wish she had
not told me her dream," and she shivered.