This was really her first visit to Brookshire?
"To England!" said Diana; and then, on a little wooing, came out the girl's first impressions, natural, enthusiastic, gay.

Sir James listened, with eyes half-closed, following every movement of her lips, every gesture of head and hand.
"Your parents took you abroad quite as a child ?" "I went with my father.

My mother died when I was quite small." Sir James did not speak for a moment.

At last he said: "But before you went abroad, you lived in London ?" "Yes--in Kensington Square." Sir James made a sudden movement which displaced a book on a little table beside him.

He stooped to pick it up.
"And your father was tired of England ?" Diana hesitated-- "I--I think he had gone through great trouble.