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"There's a girl with a head on her, and as handsome as they make 'em," Colin soliloquized on his way home. "Appreciated Glasgow! About the first American I ever met who didn't begin at once to talk about the dirty people in some of the streets, as if that was all there was of Glasgow. I don't believe she saw 'em. If she did she had the good taste not to mention 'em. Yes, she has a head on her, and such a head and face. Rex is in luck to have such a wife made to hand, and nothing to do but to take her. I wonder he didn't tell me how handsome she was. But that's his way, not to talk. I don't believe he takes very kindly to the will, at least to the girl there is in it. Isn't a marrying man. Guess I'll have to give him a little boost and tell him what I think of her."
He found Reginald reading alone in the library, Tom having gone for a stroll which he meant should take him by Mrs. Parks', where he hoped to see Rena.