It beats me!' Pamela looked at the two men smoking by the gate--representatives, very likely, of the Inspection Sub-Committee.

Should she go up and question them?
But some inherited instinct deterred her.

She was glad the country should have the land and the corn.

She had no sympathy with her father.

And yet all the same when she actually saw Demos the outsider forcibly in possession of Mannering land, the Mannering spirit kicked a little.