She has none-positively none!' Then suddenly her round, comfortable face brightened and broadened out into a beaming smile-- 'But, after all, William, say what you will--and you always do say the most unpleasant things you can think of--it was a great success.

I know the Leyburns enjoyed it.

And as for Robert, I saw him _looking_--_looking_--at that little minx Rose while she was playing as if he couldn't take his eyes off her.

What a picture she made, to be sure!' The vicar, who had been standing with his back to fireplace and his hands in his pockets, received his wife's remarks first of all with lifted eyebrows, and then with a low chuckle, half scornful, half compassionate, which made her start in her chair.
'Rose ?' he said, impatiently.

'Rose, my dear, where were your eyes ?' It was very rarely indeed, that on her own ground, so to speak, the vicar ventured to take the whip-hand of her like this.