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set too high a standard, Mr. Carleton?"
"One may leave one's-self almost alone in the world."
"Well, even then," said Fleda, "I would rather have only the image of excellence than be contented with inferiority."
"Isn't it possible to do both?" said he, smiling again.
"I don't know," said Fleda; "perhaps I am too easily dissatisfied ? I believe I have grown fastidious, living alone ? I have sometimes almost a disgust at the world and everything in it."
"I have often felt so," he said; "but I am not sure that it is a mood to be indulged in ? likely to further our own good or that of others."
"I am sure it is not," said Fleda; "I often feel vexed with myself for it; but what can one do, Mr. Carleton?"
"Don't your friends the flowers help you in this?"
"Not a bit," said Fleda ? "they draw the other way; their society is so very pure and satisfying, that one is all the less inclined to take up with the other."
She could not tell quite what to make of the smile with which he began to speak; it half abashed her.
"When I spoke, a little while ago," said he, "of the best cure for an ill mood, I was speaking of secondary means simply ? the only really humanizing, rectifying, peace-giving thing I ever tried, was looking at time in the light of eternity, and shaming or melting my coldness away in the rays of the Sun of Righteousness."
Fleda's eyes, which had fallen on her book, were raised again with such a flash of feeling that it quite prevented her seeing what was in his. But the feeling was a little too strong ? the eyes went down, lower than ever, and the features showed that the utmost efforts of self-command were needed to control them.
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