"
"Do they often mislead you?"
"Indeed, sir," she replied, with a merry twinkle in her eye, "I
think you must have learned the questions in the catechism, if not
the answers."
Van Berg bit his lip. Here was a suggestion of a thorn in the
sweetbrier he believed he had discovered.
"Now see how far I am astray," she resumed with a frankness which
had in it no trace of familiarity. "It is my impression you are
a lawyer."
At this Van Berg laughed outright and said: "You are indeed
mistaken. I have no connection with the influential class whose
business it is to make and evade the laws. I am only one among
the humble masses who aim to obey them. But perhaps you think your
intuition goes deeper than surface facts and that I OUGHT to have
been a cross-questioner."
"I am quite sure my intuition is correct in thinking that you would
not be very cross about it."
"Perhaps not, if disarmed by so smiling a face as yours."
The others, who had been delayed by a longer ride than usual, now
entered and took the vacant chairs around the table. Van Berg felt
sufficiently acquainted with them to introduce Miss Burton, for he
was curious to observe whether she would make the same impression
on them as he had been conscious of himself.
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