Is he out THERE ?" he added, trying to follow the direction of her eyes.
But the young girl kept her face studiously averted.

"Is that all ?" she asked after a pause.
"Well--there's that solemn school-master, who cut me out of the waltz with you--that Mr.Ford." Had he been a perfectly cool and impartial observer he would have seen the slight tremor cross Cressy's soft eyelids even in profile, followed by that momentary arrest of her whole face, mouth, dimples, and eyes, which had overtaken it the night the master entered the ball-room.

But he was neither, and it passed quickly and unnoticed.

Her usual lithe but languid play of expression and color came back, and she turned her head lazily towards the speaker.

"There's Paw coming.