During the last hour or so Miss H--- walked with us, and before we reached the Devil's Bridge my fate was sealed.
"The ladies were in great distress about some lost luggage--lost by the kind offices of the boy--and I went back to Como to look for it.

It lost me two days, and I never found it.

However, I found the brightest pair of blue eyes when I got back.

I will draw you no portraits, you old scoffer; but I challenge you to produce out of your own imagination anything to match it.

I don't mind confessing to you that I feel half dazed by it all at present, and have to kick myself pretty often to make sure it is not a dream.