We're all in the troupe now, I suppose," she smiled, "and we must travel with the show.

But when you say we're different," she added, "think, after all, of mamma." Mr.Longdon stared.

"It's from her you ARE different." "Ah but she had an awfully fine mind.

We're not cleverer than she." His conscious honest eyes looked away an instant.

"It's perhaps enough for the present that you're cleverer than I! I was very glad the other day," he continued, "to make the acquaintance of your daughter.