Never had she looked so lovely: never had my heart so warmly cleaved to her as now.

Had we been left two minutes longer standing there alone, I cannot answer for the consequences.

Happily for my discretion, perhaps for my enjoyment during the remainder of the day, we were speedily summoned to the repast--a very respectable collation, which Rose, assisted by Miss Wilson and Eliza, who, having shared her seat in the carriage, had arrived with her a little before the rest, had set out upon an elevated platform overlooking the sea, and sheltered from the hot sun by a shelving rock and overhanging trees.
Mrs.Graham seated herself at a distance from me.

Eliza was my nearest neighbour.

She exerted herself to be agreeable, in her gentle, unobtrusive way, and was, no doubt, as fascinating and charming as ever, if I could only have felt it.