I think her self-respect was of too robust a character, thanks to the Misses Farnham.

Still less, of course, had she any reproaches to serve upon her mother, although for a long time I thought I detected--or was it my guilty conscience ?--a spark of shrewdness in the glance she bent upon me when the talk was of Mr.Tottenham and the probabilities of his return to Agra.

So well did she sustain her experience, or so little did she feel it, that I believe the impression went abroad that Dacres had been sent disconsolate away.

One astonishing conversation I had with her some six months later, which turned upon the point of a particularly desirable offer.

She told me something then, without any sort of embarrassment, but quite lucidly and directly, that edified me much to hear.