It may have come from the freshness of the morning, but to-day her spirit sat light within her and expectant she could not say of what, yet it seemed that something good was going to happen.
"I have a guess," said the old General, "that Miss Westcote and I are bound on the same errand.

Her's cannot be to inspect dull bonds and ledgers, bills of exchange or rates of interest." He jerked his head towards the house, and Dorothea shook hers.
"I am going to 'The Dogs,' General." "Eh ?" He scented the jest and chuckled.

"As you say, 'to the dogs' hein?
Messieurs, I beg you to observe and take warning that your sister and I are going to the dogs together." He offered his arm to Dorothea.

Her brothers had dismounted and handed their horses over to the ostler who waited by the porch daily to lead them to the inn stables.
"I will stable Mercury myself," said she, addressing Endymion.

She submitted her smallest plans to him for approval.
"Do so," he answered.