His face indicated faculty and feeling, and there was much good nature, shadowed with memorial suffering, in the eyes which shone so blue out of the brown.
Mary rose respectfully as he drew near.
"What treason were you talking, Letty, that you were so startled at sight of me ?" he said, with a smile.

"You were complaining of me as a hard master, were you not ?" "No, indeed, Cousin Godfrey!" answered Letty energetically, not without tremor, and coloring as she spoke.

"I was only saying I could not help being frightened when you asked me questions about what I had been reading.

I am so stupid, you know!" "Pardon me, Letty," returned her cousin, "I know nothing of the sort.
Allow me to say you are very far from stupid.

Nobody can understand everything at first sight.