This time Miss Bremerton's countenance changed.
'Oh dear, what a blunder!' she said in distress, as she bent over her pages.

'I assure you I don't often do anything as bad as that.' Mannering was secretly delighted.

His manner became at once all politeness.
'Don't worry yourself, please.

We all make mistakes....

You have a beautiful Greek handwriting.' Miss Bremerton took the compliment calmly--did not indeed seem to hear it.