I little thought when I came who I should find." "I am in town for a short visit," I said, "with Miss Champion.

She was not well to-day so I came to see the house alone." "And, as luck would have it, I had a fancy on the same day to see a portrait in the picture-gallery here.

It is something better than chance, Miss Bawn." We stood looking at each other with a happy intimacy.

And then his mention of the portrait recalled the miniature I had found in the wood.
I had had a foolish girl's fancy to hang it about my neck under my dress, and it lay there now, suspended by a slender gold chain which was one of my godmother's gifts to me.

I had a shy reluctance to let him know I carried it there.
"By the way," I said, "I believe I have a jewel of yours.