Why should they not go out to India together and be happy ever after?
The innocent little amour may have been several months in transaction, and was discovered by Mrs.Newcome, whose keen spectacles nothing could escape.

It chanced that she drove to Blackheath to Tom's tutor's.

Tom was absent taking his French and drawing lesson of M.de Blois.

Thither Tom's stepmother followed him, and found the young man sure enough with his instructor over his books and plans of fortification.

Mademoiselle and her card-screens were in the room, but behind those screens she could not hide her blushes and confusion from Mrs.Newcome's sharp glances.