By the bye, her family name is Miller--is it not?
Is she related to the Warwickshire Millers of Duxborough House ?" Lady Lydiard looked at him with an expression of satirical surprise.
"Mr.Hardyman," she said, "this makes the fourth time you have questioned me about Isabel.

You seem to take a great interest in my little companion.

Don't make any apologies, pray! You pay Isabel a compliment, and, as I am very fond of her, I am naturally gratified when I find her admired.

At the same time," she added, with one of her abrupt transitions of language, "I had my eye on you, and I had my eye on her, when you were talking in the next room; and I don't mean to let you make a fool of the girl.

She is not in your line of life, and the sooner you know it the better.