"What a good idea!" said Mary admiringly. "I'm afraid I didn't take a serious enough view of my responsibilities last spring. But then the eighth cousin was perfectly hopeless and it was a mercy to everybody concerned that she failed. She was the kind of person that would rather risk making a bad break than leave anything out. In her English exam. they asked her what a leviathan was,--it's mentioned in 'Paradise Lost,' you know,--and she said 'a country near Thrace.' I think myself that was her finish. It doesn't do to be so positive unless you know you're in the right."