You would look like a picture in anything." Nellie Townshead glanced at him sharply, and for a moment there was a faint sparkle in her eyes, for she had a trace of temper.
"Whatever made you say that ?" said she.
Alton laughed.

"I really don't quite know.

I just felt I had to," he said with a naive simplicity.

"I wouldn't have done it if I had thought it would vex you." After this he listened while his comrade talked--and Seaforth on occasion could talk gracefully--until at last he said, "England's not so very big, Miss Nellie.

I wonder if you know a place called Carnaby." "Yes," said the girl.