It's so interesting! There is a message in it to you." Too deeply absorbed in his subject to notice the sullen submission with which she listened to him, he placed her on a chair, and began reading.

"The first lines," he explained, "relate to Nugent's return to England, and to his delightful idea of coming to stay with me at Browndown.

Then he goes on: 'I found all your letters waiting for me on my return to New York.

Need I tell you, my dearest brother----'" Lucilla stopped him at those words by rising abruptly from her seat.
"What is the matter ?" he asked.
"I don't like this chair!" Oscar got her another--an easy-chair this time--and returned to the letter.
"'Need I tell you, my dearest brother, how deeply you have interested me by the announcement of your contemplated marriage?
Your happiness is my happiness.

I feel with you; I congratulate you; I long to see my future sister-in-law----'" Lucilla got up again.