I am almost glad that Lord Ronald has gone.

At least there will be no excuse for us to sit up until daylight." "To-night," Major Forrest remarked, "let us all be primitive.

We will go to bed at eleven o'clock, and get up in the morning and walk with Miss Le Mesurier upon the marshes.

What do you find upon the sands, I wonder," he added, turning a little suddenly toward the girl, "to bring such a colour to your cheeks, and to keep you away from us for so many hours ?" Jeanne looked at him for a moment without change of features.
"It would not be easy," she said, "for me to tell you, for I find things there which you could not appreciate or understand." "You find them alone ?" Major Forrest asked smiling.
She turned her left shoulder upon him and addressed her host.
"Major Forrest is very impertinent," she said.

"I think that I will not talk with him any more.