She has just brought one of my children down; I am going to keep her till Monday.

Come and speak; the most loveable child!' Thyrza and Annabel were presented to each other with the pleasant informality which Mrs.Ormonde so naturally employed.

Each was impressed with the other's beauty; Thyrza felt not a little awe, and Annabel could not gaze enough at the lovely face which made such a surprise for her.
'Why did Mr.Egremont give me no suggestion of this ?' she said to herself.
She had noticed, in drawing near, how intimately her friend and the stranger were talking together.

Her arrival had disturbed Thyrza's confidence; she herself did not feel able to talk quite freely.

So in a few minutes she turned and went by the footway along the edge of the height.