But of all she liked Lord Manorwater best.

She knew that he had a great reputation, that he was said to be incessantly laborious, and she had expected some one of her father's type, prim, angular, and elderly.

Instead she found a boyish person whom she could scold, and with women reproof is the first stone in the foundation of friendship.

On Mr.Stocks she generously reserved her judgment, fearing the fate of the hasty..