At the top of St.James's Street he pulled the check-string and jumped out.

He had caught a glimpse of a girl's face looking into a shop window.

He hastily crossed the pavement and accosted her, hat in hand.
"Miss Scott, will you permit me the opportunity of saying a few words to you ?" Mary turned round, speechless for more than a minute or two.
"I will not detain you for more than a minute or two.

I hope that you will not refuse me." "I will listen to anything you have to say, Lord Arranmore," she said, "but let me tell you that I have been to see Mr.Ascough.He told me that he had your permission to explain to me fully the reasons of your coming to Montreal and the story of your life before." "Well ?" She hesitated.

He stood before her, palpably anxiously waiting for her decision.
"I was perhaps wrong to judge so hastily, Lord Arranmore," she said, "and I am inclined to regret my visit to Enton.