Mother!" "Well, dear ?" "When I asked leave to come to the station and see her off, she seemed put out." "Did she forbid you ?" "No; but she did not like it somehow.

Ah, she knew beforehand that Coventry would be there." "Gently, gently! She might think it possible, and yet not know it.

More likely it was on account of her father.

You have never told him that you love his daughter ?" "No." "And he is rather mercenary: perhaps that is too strong a word; but, in short, a mere man of the world.

Might it not be that Grace Carden would wish him to learn your attachment either from your lips or from her own, and not detect it in an impetuous young man's conduct on the platform of a railway, at the tender hour of parting ?" "Oh, how wise you are, and what an insight you have got! Your words are balm.