If we wait for our chance, and turn it to the right use when it comes, we may yet succeed in making her betray herself." Emily listened to him in bewilderment.
"You talk as if I was sure of your help in the future," she said.

"Have you forgotten that I leave school to-day, never to return?
In half an hour more, I shall be condemned to a long journey in the company of that horrible creature--with a life to look forward to, in the same house with her, among strangers! A miserable prospect, and a hard trial of a girl's courage--is it not, Mr.Morris ?" "You will at least have one person, Miss Emily, who will try with all his heart and soul to encourage you." "What do you mean ?" "I mean," said Alban, quietly, "that the Midsummer vacation begins to-day; and that the drawing-master is going to spend his holidays in the North." Emily jumped up from her chair.

"You!" she exclaimed.

"_You_ are going to Northumberland?
With me ?" "Why not ?" Alban asked.

"The railway is open to all travelers alike, if they have money enough to buy a ticket." "Mr.Morris! what _can_ you be thinking of?
Indeed, indeed, I am not ungrateful.