I think I saw her once: she was very tall, and had dark hair.' 'Oh yes; that was Jill--I mean Jocelyn, but we always call her Jill.

Will you come this way, please?
Fraeulein is out, and we were having a good time by ourselves.' 'And I have come to spoil it,' he answered regretfully, as I opened the door.
I shall never forget Jill's face when she saw us on the threshold.

She quite forgot to shake hands with Mr.Tudor in her dismay, but stood hunching her shoulders, with Sooty still clasped in her arms and her great eyes staring at him, till he said a pleasant word to her, and then she flushed up, and subsided into her chair.

I stole an anxious glance at the cake; to my great relief, Jill had been quietly proceeding with her meal in my absence, for I knew that in her chagrin she would refuse to touch another morsel.

I wondered a little what Mr.Tudor would think of her ungracious reception of him; but he showed his good-breeding by taking no notice of it and confining his remarks to me.
Jill's ill-humour thawed by and by when she saw how he entered into the spirit of the fun.