She had been ailing for a day or two, she said, and felt incapable of exertion; Mrs.Ogle was away from home for the day, too, and it would be better they should spend the afternoon together in the house.

Julian of course assented, as always, and they established themselves in the parlour behind the shop.

In the course of talk, the girl made mention of an engraving Julian had given her a week or two before, and said that she had had it framed and hung it in her bed-room.
"Do come up and look at it," she exclaimed; "there's no one in the house.

I want to ask you if you can find a better place for it.

It doesn't show so well where it is." Julian hesitated for a moment, but she was already leading the way, and he could not refuse to follow.