He took in the situation at a glance without asking a question.

"But," said he, "are we not to wait for the intelligent young lady?
Female intelligence can make the finer pancake." The surveyors manifested some curiosity.

"What do you know about a young lady ?" they asked.
"The young lady of the house," replied Harkness.

"Hasn't _he"_--referring to Bates--"told you all about her?
The domestic divinity who has just happened to get mislaid this morning.

I saw him looking over the wood pile to see if she had fallen behind it, but she hadn't." "It is only a few days since her father died," said the senior of the party gravely.
"And so," went on the young man, "she has very properly given these few days to inconsolable grief.