She spoke in a quick and nervous way to the shopkeeper, asking him to call a coach.
'This the shopkeeper did, Mademoiselle V--- and the stranger remaining in constrained silence while he was gone.

The coach came up, and giving the man the address, she entered it and drove away.
'"Who is that lady ?" said the newly arrived gentleman.
'"She's of your nation, as I should make bold to suppose," said the shopkeeper.

And he told the other that she was Mademoiselle V--, governess at General Newbold's, in the same town.
'"You have many foreigners here ?" the stranger inquired.
'"Yes, though mostly Hanoverians.

But since the peace they are learning French a good deal in genteel society, and French instructors are rather in demand." '"Yes, I teach it," said the visitor.

"I am looking for a tutorship in an academy." 'The information given by the burgess to the Frenchman seemed to explain to the latter nothing of his countrywoman's conduct--which, indeed, was the case--and he left the shop, taking his course again over the bridge and along the south quay to the Old Rooms Inn, where he engaged a bedchamber.
'Thoughts of the woman who had betrayed such agitation at sight of him lingered naturally enough with the newcomer.