I like the highest." And then her eyes fell on the peaches, and she gave a little cry of alarm.
"What will the duchess say ?" she cried.

"Oh, Lord Arleigh, let me go." "Give me one kind word, then." "What am I to say?
Oh, do let me go!" "Say, 'I like you, Norman.'" "I like you, Norman," she said; and, taking up the peaches, she hastened away.

Yet, with her flushed face and the glad light in her happy eyes, she did not dare to present herself at once before the duchess and Lady Peters..