When I once saw you smiling over a book in your hand, I thought it must be a different one from any that I had ever seen, and perhaps made expressly for you.
I can see you there still.

Do you know," quite confidentially, "that you reminded me--of course YOU were much younger--of what I remembered of my mother ?" But Mrs.Peyton's reply of "Ah, indeed," albeit polite, indicated some coldness and lack of animation.

Clarence rose quickly, but cast a long and lingering look around him.
"You will come again, Mr.Brant," said the lady more graciously.

"If you are going to ride now, perhaps you would try to meet Mr.Peyton.He is late already, and I am always uneasy when he is out alone,--particularly on one of those half-broken horses, which they consider good enough for riding here.

YOU have ridden them before and understand them, but I am afraid that's another thing WE have got to learn." When the young man found himself again confronting the glittering light of the courtyard, he remembered the interview and the soft twilight of the boudoir only as part of a pleasant dream.