Is she to go bending her back and dimming her eyes while the lambs are at play in the fields and the primroses thick in the woods ?" "She's an obstinate person, Mrs.Morres.When she has made up her mind to do a thing----" "Ah! you know her pretty well." "We first met about nine years ago." "Dear me! I had no idea that you were such old friends.

I thought you met first in this house." "Lady Anne Hamilton, the old lady who adopted Miss Gray, was my mother's friend." He said nothing about the fact that twelve hours ago he had not known Mary Gray for the child he had played with for one afternoon, nor of the long gap between that occasion and their next meeting.

Not from any disingenuousness; but he had a feeling that he liked to keep that meeting of long ago to himself.
"Dear me, to be sure you would be interested in Mary.

You would know a good deal about her.

Nine years--it is a long time." If he had been the most consummate plotter he could not better have paved the way for the suggestion he was about to make.
"Put off your return to Hazels till Saturday morning.