He watched her, accordingly, in her favourite element, very much as he had sometimes watched, at the Aquarium, the celebrated lady who, in a slight, though tight, bathing-suit, turned somersaults and did tricks in the tank of water which looked so cold and uncomfortable to the non-amphibious.

He listened to his companion to-night, while he smoked his last pipe, he watched her through her demonstration, quite as if he had paid a shilling.

But it was true that, this being the case, he desired the value of his money.

What was it, in the name of wonder, that she was so bent on being responsible FOR?
What did she pretend was going to happen, and what, at the worst, could the poor girl do, even granting she wanted to do anything?
What, at the worst, for that matter, could she be conceived to have in her head?
"If she had told me the moment she got here," Mrs.Assingham replied, "I shouldn't have my difficulty in finding out.

But she wasn't so obliging, and I see no sign at all of her becoming so.