However, I had left them with Jane in a--in a _safe place_." I did not think it necessary to mention the tea-caddy.
"Oh! so Carr knew you had charge of them, did he ?" said Charles.

"Have some of these grapes, Middleton; the white ones are the best." "Yes," I said, "he was the only person who had any idea of such a thing.
I am very careful, I can tell you; and I did not mean to have half the ship's company know that I had valuables to such an amount upon me.

When I told Jane about them--" "Oh, then, Jane--I beg her pardon, Miss Middleton--was aware you had them with you ?" "Of course," I replied; "and she was quite astonished at them when I showed them to her." "I hope," continued Charles, with his charming smile--all the more charming because it was so rare--"that Miss Middleton will add me to the number of her friends some day.

I live in London, you know; but I wonder at ladies caring to live there.

No poultry or garden, to which the feminine mind usually clings." "Jane seems to like it," I said.
"Yes," replied Charles, meditatively.