Since then, she knew, he had been much with his old friend, Alice Greggory.

She did not believe, should she see him now, that he would be either white-faced, or stony-eyed.

His heart, she was sure, had gone where it ought to have gone in the first place--to Alice.

Such being, in her opinion, the case, she longed to get the embarrassment of a first meeting between themselves over with, for, after that, she was sure, their old friendship could be renewed, and she would be in a position to further this pretty love affair between him and Alice.

Very decidedly, therefore, Billy wished to meet Arkwright.