Why shouldn't they, when there are such crowds of new girls every year ?" Emily Fox-Seton was sweet.

She was quite sure that they would not be obliged to go to Castle Clare.

Without being indelicate, she was really able to bring hope to the fore.

She said a good deal of the black gauze dress and the lovely effect of the silver butterflies.
"I suppose it was the butterflies which made Lord Walderhurst say 'Psyche! Psyche!' when he first saw you," she added, _en passant_.
"Did he say that ?" And immediately Lady Agatha looked as if she had not intended to say the words.
"Yes," answered Emily, hurrying on with a casual air which had a good deal of tact in it.

"And black makes you so wonderfully fair and aerial.
You scarcely look quite real in it; you might float away.