I know your susceptible nature; you would have fallen in love with her, and she would not have had you, and we should both of us have been miserable." "How do you know she wouldn't have had me, Norah ?" "Because, my dear, she will be able to pick and choose just where she likes; and though no one recognizes your virtues more than I do, a company in an Indian regiment is hardly as attractive as a Residency or Lieutenant Governorship.

But seriously, she is a dear girl, and as yet does not seem to have the least idea how pretty she is.

How cordially some of them will hate her! I anticipate great fun in looking on.

I am out of all that sort of thing myself." "That is news to me, Norah; I think you are just as fond of a quiet flirtation as you used to be." "Just of a very little one, Jim; fortunately not more.

So I can look on complacently; but even I have suffered.