But Elizabeth would not let him speak.
"You must let me have my innings," she said, with a delicious laugh.

"I have pent up my feelings for nearly two years, and they must find vent.
Mr.Herrick, you have been our benefactor--Dinah's and mine as well as Cedric's.

When you held out your generous hand to a stranger--when you saved our poor boy from disgrace and a ruined career, you did far more than you thought--" "Miss Templeton, for pity's sake--" "Please, please, let me finish," a pressure of his arm emphasised her words; "it is so difficult for a woman to hold her tongue.

Dinah knows nothing of all this; we dare not tell her--it would break her heart.

My sister is too good for this world; you know what I mean Mr.
Herrick--she believes too much in other people's goodness, and then when they disappoint her she is quite crushed." "I should have thought Miss Templeton's nature an exceptionally happy one," returned Malcolm.
"You are right," and Elizabeth spoke with evident feeling; "but these bright, sunshiny natures have their hours of eclipse.