If anybody can get it it's Elizabeth.

Well, good-bye; if you are dull and want to talk to Beatrice, she is up and in there.

I daresay you will suit one another.

She's a very queer girl, Beatrice, quite beyond me with her ideas, and it was a funny thing her holding you so tight, but I suppose Providence arranged that.

Good-bye for the present, Mr.
Bingham," and this curious specimen of a clergyman vanished, leaving Geoffrey quite breathless.
It was half-past two o'clock, and the doctor had told him that he could see Miss Granger at three.