He looked about him with different eyes, and there you were! It seems to me a thing perfectly ordained, as so few things are.

I brought him down here just for a pleasant week in the country--without another thought beyond that.

All this week I have been coming to think of myself as an unconscious agent, who just at the right time is made to do the right thing.

Here was the first possible moment for Harry Luttrell--and there you were in the path--just as if you without knowing it, had been set there to wait until he came over the fields to you." He turned to her and took her hand in his.

He had his sympathies for Stella Croyle, but her hopes held no positive promise of happiness for either her or Harry Luttrell--a mere flash and splutter of passion at the best, with all sorts of sordid disadvantages to follow, quarrels, the scorn of his equals, the loss of position, the check to advancement in his profession.