Where is Sir Jeoffry, Lovatt ?" "In the dining-hall," answered the servant.

"He went there but a moment past, Mistress." The chaplain gave such a start as made him drop his shovel hat.
"Mistress!" And this was she--this fine young creature who was tall and grandly enough built and knit to seem a radiant being even when clad in masculine attire.

He picked up his hat and bowed so low that it almost swept the floor in his obeisance.

He was not used to female beauty which deigned to cast great smiling eyes upon him, for at my Lord Twemlow's table he sat so far below the salt that women looked not his way.
This beauty looked at him as if she was amused at the thought of something in her own mind.

He wondered tremblingly if she guessed what he came for and knew how her father would receive it.
"Come with me," she said; "I will take you to him.