After their arrival at Engelthal, Roderick appeared to seek the young girl's society more than he had done hitherto, and this revival of ardor could not fail to set his friend a-wondering.

They sat together and strolled together, and Miss Garland often read aloud to him.

One day, on their coming to dinner, after he had been lying half the morning at her feet, in the shadow of a rock, Rowland asked him what she had been reading.
"I don't know," Roderick said, "I don't heed the sense." Miss Garland heard this, and Rowland looked at her.

She looked at Roderick sharply and with a little blush.

"I listen to Mary," Roderick continued, "for the sake of her voice.