Lord Warburton, who had ridden over from his own house, some ten miles distant, remounted and took his departure before dinner; and an hour after this meal was ended Mr.and Mrs.Touchett, who appeared to have quite emptied the measure of their forms, withdrew, under the valid pretext of fatigue, to their respective apartments.

The young man spent an hour with his cousin; though she had been travelling half the day she appeared in no degree spent.

She was really tired; she knew it, and knew she should pay for it on the morrow; but it was her habit at this period to carry exhaustion to the furthest point and confess to it only when dissimulation broke down.

A fine hypocrisy was for the present possible; she was interested; she was, as she said to herself, floated.

She asked Ralph to show her the pictures; there were a great many in the house, most of them of his own choosing.
The best were arranged in an oaken gallery, of charming proportions, which had a sitting-room at either end of it and which in the evening was usually lighted.