"It is a mere matter of feeling, and I should not have mentioned it had I known the altered relations between him and Miss Wylie." "Pray don't speak of them," said Agatha.

"I have a mind to run away by the next train." Sir Charles, to change the subject, suggested a duet.
Meanwhile Erskine, returning through the village from his morning ride, had met Trefusis, and attempted to pass him with a nod.

But Trefusis called to him to stop, and he dismounted reluctantly.
"Just a word to say that I am going to be married," said Trefusis.
"To-- ?" Erskine could not add Gertrude's name.
"To one of our friends at the Beeches.

Guess to which." "To Miss Lindsay, I presume." "What in the fiend's name has put it into all your heads that Miss Lindsay and I are particularly attached to one another ?" exclaimed Trefusis.

"YOU have always appeared to me to be the man for Miss Lindsay.