'From a modern point of view, railways are, no doubt, things more to be proud of than castles,' he said; 'though perhaps I myself, from mere association, should decide in favour of the ancestor who built the castle.' The serious anxiety to be truthful that Somerset threw into his observation, was more than the circumstance required.

'To design great engineering works,' he added musingly, and without the least eye to the disparagement of her parent, 'requires no doubt a leading mind.

But to execute them, as he did, requires, of course, only a following mind.' His reply had not altogether pleased her; and there was a distinct reproach conveyed by her slight movement towards Mrs.Goodman.He saw it, and was grieved that he should have spoken so.

'I am going to walk over and inspect that famous tunnel of your father's,' he added gently.
'It will be a pleasant study for this afternoon.' She went away.

'I am no man of the world,' he thought.