'You kept up your acquaintanceship with her, then, after you'-- I was going to say 'after you ceased to be Smith,' but not wishing to agitate him by more mention of that person than I could help, I substituted, 'after you returned to the Albany ?' "'Not exactly,' he replied; 'I lost sight of her after I left Yarmouth, and I did not see her again until five days ago, when I came across her in an aerated bread shop.

I had gone in to get a glass of milk and a bun, and _she_ brought them to me.

I recognised her in a moment.' His face lighted up with quite a human smile.

'I take tea there every afternoon now,' he added, glancing towards the clock, 'at four.' "'There's not much need to ask _her_ views on the subject,' I said, laughing; 'her feelings towards you were pretty evident.' "'Well, that is the curious part of it,' he replied, with a return to his former embarrassment; 'she does not seem to care for me now at all.
Indeed, she positively refuses me.

She says--to put it in the dear child's own racy language--that she wouldn't take me on at any price.