No recollection of the day when he had followed her sister and herself on their way home with Miss Garth rose in her memory, while he now confronted her, with his altered manner and his altered dress.
"You are mistaken," she said, quietly.

"You are a perfect stranger to me." "Pardon me," replied the captain; "I am a species of relation.

I had the pleasure of seeing you in the spring of the present year.

I presented myself on that memorable occasion to an honored preceptress in your late father's family.

Permit me, under equally agreeable circumstances, to present myself to _you_.