He is coming now to see after you.

I wonder," she said, stopping for a moment as she turned to leave, "if Miss March had been sitting in that chair, if you would have had the heart to tell her to go away; or if you would have let her sit still, and take cold." Lawrence smiled, but very slightly.

"That subject," said he, "is one on which I don't joke." "Goodness!" exclaimed Miss Annie, clasping her hands and gazing with an air of comical commiseration at Mr Croft's serious face.

"I should think not!" and away she went.
Just before supper time, when Lawrence's door had been closed, and his lamp lighted, there came a knock, and Mrs Keswick appeared.

"That plan of mine didn't work," she said, "but I will bring Miss March out here, and manage it so that she'll have to stay till I come back.