70/134 We should call Dr.Beltram in England a priest." "Oh but he's English. And he knows everything we do--and everything we think." "'We'-- your aunt, your governess and your nurse? And we know that just the same he always likes us." "I see then of course," said Mr.Longdon, very gravely now, "what a friend he must be. So it's after all this," he continued in a moment, "that Nanda comes in ?" His companion had to consider, but suddenly she caught assistance. "This one, I think, comes before." Lord Petherton, arriving apparently from the garden, had drawn near unobserved by Mr.Longdon and the next moment was within hail. |