But I don't see that there was anything wicked in it; for Lady Grace herself is coming to look on presently." "I skated with Miss de Vigne nearly all the afternoon," observed Sir Eustace.

"But she is a regular ice-maiden.

I couldn't get any enthusiasm out of her.

Tell me, is she like that all through?
Or is it just a pose ?" "Oh, I don't know," Dinah said.

"I've never got through the outer crust.
But then of course I'm far beneath her." "How so ?" asked Sir Eustace.
She laughed up at him with the happy confidence of a child.