Poor Mary was worse that day, and I had begged Lady Betty to keep the little ones quiet.
Mr.Hamilton came into the sick-room looking very much pleased.

'I only wish you could make Lady Betty a useful member of society, Miss Garston,' he said, with one of the rare smiles that always lit up his dark face so pleasantly.

'She is a good little thing, but she wants ballast.

As a rule, young ladies are terribly idle.' I had called up at Gladwyn a few days after we had dined there, but, to my great disappointment, I did not see Miss Hamilton.

Miss Darrell was alone, so my visit was as brief as possible.
She told me at once that her cousins had gone over to Brighton for an afternoon's shopping, and that Mr.Hamilton had run up to London for a few hours.