Here they come." Grace, who was a little taller than Miriam, had thrown one arm round that young lady's waist, with a view, perhaps, to forming a picture in which she should not be the secondary figure.

In fact, they were both of them very pretty; but Freeman had become blind to any beauty but Miriam's.

Moreover, he was resolved to have some private conversation with her during the few minutes that were available.

A conversation with the professor, and some meditations of his own, had suggested to him a line of attack upon Grace.
"I'm afraid you were disturbed by the earthquake last night ?" he said to her.
"An earthquake?
Why should you think so ?" "You look as if you had passed a restless night.

I saw Senor de Mendoza this morning.