What could any one as gallant as myself do under these circumstances, but offer to set forth in quest of that gentleman?
And she promptly consented to sit up and wait his coming, and dismissed me with her blessing.

And, Kingsley, I've a private notion she is as deeply affected by you as you are by her; for, when I mentioned your name, she blushed, yea, verily to the roots of her hair; and when she spoke of you, couldn't so much as look me in the face--which is, you must own, a very bad symptom." "Nonsense!" said Sir Norman, energetically.

And had it been daylight, his friend would have seen that he blushed almost as extensively as the lady.

"She doesn't know me." "Ah, doesn't she, though?
That shows all you know about it! She has seen you go past the window many and many a time; and to see you," said Ormiston, making a grimace undercover of the darkness, "is to love! She told me so herself." "What! That she loved me!" exclaimed Sir Norman, his notions of propriety to the last degree shocked by such a revelation.
"Not altogether, she only looked that; but she said she knew you well by sight, and by heart, too, as I inferred from her countenance when she said it.

There now, don't make me talk any more, for I have told you everything I know, and am about hoarse with my exertions." "One thing only--did she tell you who she was ?" "No, except that her name was Leoline, and nothing else--which struck me as being slightly improbable.