Nothing could be more natural than that Mrs.Vivian should suppose that Bernard desired his friend's success; for, as our thoughtful hero said to himself, what she had hitherto taken it into her head to fear was not that Bernard should fall in love with her daughter, but that her daughter should fall in love with him.

Watering-place life is notoriously conducive to idleness of mind, and Bernard strolled for half an hour along the overarched avenue, glancing alternately at these two insupposable cases.
A few days afterward, late in the evening, Gordon Wright came to his room at the hotel.
"I have just received a letter from my sister," he said.

"I am afraid I shall have to go away." "Ah, I 'm sorry for that," said Bernard, who was so well pleased with the actual that he desired no mutation.
"I mean only for a short time," Gordon explained.

"My poor sister writes from England, telling me that my brother-in-law is suddenly obliged to go home.

She has decided not to remain behind, and they are to sail a fortnight hence.