Peter was made to shake hands with Mrs.Pierce, but was called off to help Miss Pierce out of the carriage, before speech was necessary.

Then a bundle was missing in the bottom of the carriage, and Mr.Pawling, the New York swell, was summoned to help Peter find it, the incident being seized upon to name the two to each other.

Finally, he was introduced to the two girls, but, almost instantly, Watts and Peter were sent to their rooms; and Miss Pierce, nodding her head in a way which denoted satisfaction, remarked as she went to her own room, "Really, Helen, I don't think it will be so very hard, after all.

He's very tractable." As Peter came downstairs, before dinner, he speculated on whether he should be able to talk to Miss Pierce.

He rather doubted from past experience, if such a result was attainable, seeing that there were two other men, who would of course endeavor to do the same.