"I have seen him before; but, oh, please don't say anything about it!" She was in such a violent tremor--her voice was so agitated, that Eeny good-naturedly said no more.

She turned away, and looked again at the paling glory of the sunset, not seeing it this time, but thinking of Agnes Darling's unaccountable agitation at sight of Grace's brother.
"Perhaps he has been a lover of hers," thought romantic Eeny, "and false! She is very pretty, or would be, if she wasn't as pale as a corpse.

And yet I don't think Doctor Frank would be false to any one either.

I don't want to think so--I like him too well." Eeny left the sewing-room and went upstairs.

She found Doctor Danton in the dining-room with his sister and Rose, and Rose was singing a French song for him.