"I forgot that.

Still it seems unaccountable, doesn't it ?" "Unaccountable, because it happens every day!" retorted Miss Garth, good-humoredly.

"I know a great many excellent people who reason against plain experience in the same way--who read the newspapers in the morning, and deny in the evening that there is any romance for writers or painters to work upon in modern life.

Seriously, Mrs.Vanstone, you may take my word for it--thanks to those wretched theatricals, Magdalen is going the way with Frank that a great many young ladies have gone before her.

He is quite unworthy of her; he is, in almost every respect, her exact opposite--and, without knowing it herself, she has fallen in love with him on that very account.