Let me get hold of a letter just once, that's all!" "And he's orful good-natured to her, ain't he?
Looks after her when she has tea with you, and so on ?" "I should think he did.

It's all--'Won't Miss Starr have this ?' and 'Won't Miss Starr have that ?' He scarcely takes his eyes off of her, all the time." "I know, I know; it's allus the same! You keep your eyes open, Harriet, and you'll 'ave your reward, as the Scriptures says." When she reached home, Julian was in the uneasy condition always brought about by these late absences.

To a remark he made about the time, she vouchsafed no answer.
"Have you been with Ida all the evening ?" he asked.
"No, I haven't," was her reply.
She went into the bed-room, and was absent for a few minutes, then reappeared.
"Do you know where my silver spoon is ?" she asked, looking closely at him.
"Your silver spoon ?" he returned, in surprise.

"Have you lost it ?" The article in question, together with a fork, hod been a wedding-present from Mrs.Sprowl, whose character had in it a sort of vulgar generosity, displayed at times in gifts to Harriet.
"I can't find it," Harriet said.

"I was showing it to Ida Starr when she was here on Sunday, and now I come to look for it, it's gone." "Oh, it can't be very far off," said Julian.