Mr.Somerfield took me up there this afternoon, and I found a German hat.

No one else got a thing, and, would you believe it, those children over there tried to take it away from me." Her stepmother smiled faintly.
"I expect you are keeping the hat, dear," she observed.
"I should say so!" Nora assented.
Philippa held out her hand to the two young men who had been waiting to take their leave.
"You must come and dine one night this week, both of you," she said.

"My husband will be home by the later train this evening, and I'm sure he will be glad to have you." "Very kind of you, Lady Cranston, we shall be delighted," Harrison declared.
"Rather!" his companion echoed.
Nora led them away, and Helen, with a word of excuse, followed them.
Griffiths, who had also risen to his feet, came a little nearer to Philippa's chair.
"And you, too, of course, Captain Griffiths," she said, smiling pleasantly up at him.

"Must you hurry away ?" "I will stay, if I may, until Miss Fairclough returns," he answered, resuming his seat.
"Do!" Philippa begged him.

"I have had such a miserable time in town.
You can't think how restful it is to be back here." "I am afraid," he observed, "that your journey has not been successful." Philippa shook her head.
"It has been completely unsuccessful," she sighed.