Have I the honour of addressing Miss Tempest ?" "Oh, yes, that is my name," she answered, looking up at him, the peach bloom deepening to a glow of satisfaction, and the soft eyes lighting with a glad smile.

"Have you come to meet me ?" "I have.

I come from my mother, Lady Verner." "I am so glad," she rejoined, with a frank sincerity of manner perfectly refreshing in these modern days of artificial young ladyism.

"I was beginning to think nobody had come; and then what could I have done ?" "My sister would have come with me to receive you, but for an accident which occurred to her just before it was time to start.

Have you any luggage ?" "There's the great box I brought from India, and a hair-trunk, and my school-box.