I distinctly stated that I did not even see him, and should not have known that it was he at all.

Adela is responsible for that assertion.' 'I just saw his face,' the girl said naturally.

'I thought he looked ill.' Mr.Wyvern addressed to her a question about her walk, and for a few minutes they conversed together.

There was a fresh simplicity in Adela's way of speaking which harmonised well with her appearance and with the scene in which she moved.

A gentle English girl, this dainty home, set in so fair and peaceful a corner of the world, was just the abode one would have chosen for her.