I will wait here till you return.

Oh, I can amuse myself with the newspapers and books on your table.

Stay! one caution: be sure there are no flowers in Miss Ashleigh's sleeping-room.

I think I saw a treacherous rose-tree in a stand by the window.

If so, banish it." Left alone, I examined the room in which, oh, thought of joy! I had surely now won the claim to become a privileged guest.