"'Don't say I never gave you anything,'" she murmured; "did he allude to the chain or to the--kiss?
Oh, Archibald, why don't you say that you love me ?" Mr.Carlyle had been all his life upon intimate terms with the Hare family.

His father's first wife--for the late lawyer Carlyle had been twice married--had been a cousin of Justice Hare's, and this had caused them to be much together.

Archibald, the child of the second Mrs.
Carlyle, had alternately teased and petted Anne and Barbara Hare, boy fashion.

Sometimes he quarreled with the pretty little girls, sometimes he caressed them, as he would have done had they been his sisters; and he made no scruple of declaring publicly to the pair that Anne was his favorite.

A gentle, yielding girl she was, like her mother; whereas Barbara displayed her own will, and it sometimes clashed with young Carlyle's.
The clock struck ten.