"I have taken a fancy to your Mentor.

He seems a clever chap.

He is a barrister, isn't he, and literary, and all that sort of thing ?" "I have told you about him often enough," returned Cedric, in rather a surly tone, as though the iron hand under the velvet glove made itself evident.

Cedric felt he was being managed and coerced, and he waxed indignant; but Saul Jacobi was more than a match for him, and in spite of all Malcolm's efforts, Cedric went back to Henley without a word of warning.
Malcolm was quite troubled and crestfallen over his failure.
"I did my best," he said to Elizabeth; "I followed him about the whole afternoon, but that fellow stuck to him like a leech." "So I saw," she returned rather sadly; "it was no fault of yours, Mr.
Herrick, I am quite sure of that.

Well, we must find some other opportunity." And then Elizabeth smiled at him very kindly, and Malcolm went back to the Crow's Nest feeling somewhat comforted..