Nevil spoke, and was like the magical piper: she was compelled to follow him and dance the round again, with the wretched thought that it must resemble coquettry.

Nevil did not think so, but a very attentive observer now upon the scene, and possessed of his half of the secret, did, and warned him.

Rosamund Culling added that the French girl might be only an unconscious coquette, for she was young.

The critic would not undertake to pronounce on her suggestion, whether the candour apparent in merely coquettish instincts was not more dangerous than a battery of the arts of the sex.

She had heard Nevil's frank confession, and seen Renee twice, when she tried in his service, though not greatly wishing for success, to stir the sensitive girl for an answer to his attachment.