O it's Mr.Dare.We don't see you at the castle now, sir.' 'No.

And do you get a walk like this every evening when the others are at their busiest ?' 'Almost every evening; that's the one return to the poor lady's maid for losing her leisure when the others get it--in the absence of the family from home.' 'Is Miss Power a hard mistress ?' 'No.' 'Rather fanciful than hard, I presume ?' 'Just so, sir.' 'And she likes to appear to advantage, no doubt.' 'I suppose so,' said Milly, laughing.

'We all do.' 'When does she appear to the best advantage?
When riding, or driving, or reading her book ?' 'Not altogether then, if you mean the very best.' 'Perhaps it is when she sits looking in the glass at herself, and you let down her hair.' 'Not particularly, to my mind.' 'When does she to your mind?
When dressed for a dinner-party or ball ?' 'She's middling, then.

But there is one time when she looks nicer and cleverer than at any.

It is when she is in the gymnasium.' 'O--gymnasium ?' 'Because when she is there she wears such a pretty boy's costume, and is so charming in her movements, that you think she is a lovely young youth and not a girl at all.' 'When does she go to this gymnasium ?' 'Not so much as she used to.