Arnold observed, however, that there was some weakness about the letter "h," less common among Americans than among the English.

Presently he went away, and the girl, who had been aware that he was watching her, breathed more easily.
"Who is your Cousin Arnold ?" she asked.
"My dear, he is my cousin but not yours.

You will not see him often, because he is going to be married, I am sorry to say, and to be married beneath him--oh, it is dreadful! to some tradesman's girl, my dear." "Dreadful!" said Iris with a queer look in her eyes.

"Well, cousin, I don't want to see much of him.

He's a good-looking chap, too, though rather too finicking for my taste.