Ah! I do not say they can avail!' 'Who can say that, M.de Saint-Yves ?' she said softly.

'But I think it is time we should be going.' 'High time,' said Ronald, whom (to say the truth) I had a little forgotten.
On the way back, as I was laying myself out to recover lost ground with the youth, and to obliterate, if possible, the memory of my last and somewhat too fervent speech, who should come past us but the major?
I had to stand aside and salute as he went by, but his eyes appeared entirely occupied with Flora.
'Who is that man ?' she asked.
'He is a friend of mine,' said I.

'I give him lessons in French, and he has been very kind to me.' 'He stared,' she said,--'I do not say, rudely; but why should he stare ?' 'If you do not wish to be stared at, mademoiselle, suffer me to recommend a veil,' said I.
She looked at me with what seemed anger.

'I tell you the man stared,' she said.
And Ronald added.

'Oh, I don't think he meant any harm.