"Somehow I made up my mind that you were all sure to like him, and I don't suppose the idea made me like him any the better.

He was just the free-and-easy sort of fellow to get along well, and I was quite sure that Aggie would not want me, when she had him to go about with her.

I saw him drive through in the pony carriage with her, two or three times, and it was easy to see how thoroughly she was enjoying herself." "Well, it was your own fault, my boy.

If you choose to sulk down here, and never to go up to the Hall, you can't blame Aggie for letting herself be amused by someone else." "Oh! I don't blame her," James said hastily.

"Of course, it is all right that she should enjoy herself with her cousin.