Who are you thinking of, Ellinor ?" asked he, rather abruptly.
"Oh, of no one," she answered in affright.

"Why should I be thinking of any one?
I often try to plan out what I should do, or what I ought to do, if such and such a thing happened, just as you recollect I used to wonder if I should have presence of mind in case of fire." "Then, after all, you yourself are the girl who is engaged, and who has the imaginary brother who gets into disgrace ?" "Yes, I suppose so," said she, a little annoyed at having betrayed any personal interest in the affair.
He was silent, meditating.
"There is nothing wrong in it," said she, timidly, "is there ?" "I think you had better tell me fully out what is in your mind," he replied, kindly.

"Something has happened which has suggested these questions.

Are you putting yourself in the place of any one about whom you have been hearing lately?
I know you used to do so formerly, when you were a little girl." "No; it was a very foolish question of mine, and I ought not to have said anything about it.

See! here is Mr.Ness overtaking us." The clergyman joined them on the broad walk that ran by the river-side, and the talk became general.