Her bright look at Robin Drummond was full of sympathetic admiration, of felicitation.

She kissed Nelly warmly.

She was not an effusive person, and nothing had been further from her thoughts than kissing, but her heart went out at once to this charming girl.
"_How_ good of you to come to see me!" she said, pressing Nelly's hands in hers.

"Into the east, too! And you must be so busy just now." "I have been longing to see you," Nelly responded.

"Robin has talked so much about you." At that moment Nelly had no doubt that he had talked.
"And I wanted to see you here, in your ordinary life.