Maw stepped forward, however, and shook her quietly by the hand, "I expected to find that it was you," he said.

"I have already met your sister, Mr.McIntyre, on the very first day that I came here.

We took shelter in a shed from a snowstorm, and had quite a pleasant little chat." "I had no notion that I was speaking to the owner of the Hall," said Laura in some confusion.

"How funnily things turn out, to be sure!" "I had often wondered who it was that I spoke to, but it was only yesterday that I discovered.

What a sweet little place you have here! It must be charming in summer.