She had caught sight of Mr.Wainwright, the surgeon, at a little distance, and sped toward him.
"Mr.Wainwright," began she, forgetting ceremony in her agitation, "you see that gentleman talking to Otway Bethel--who is he ?" Mr.Wainwright had to put his glasses across the bridge of his nose before he could answer, for he was short-sighted.

"That?
Oh, it is a Captain Thorn.

He is visiting the Herberts, I believe." "Where does he come from?
Where does he live ?" reiterated Barbara in her eagerness.
"I don't know anything about him.

I saw him this morning with young Smith, and he told me he was a friend of the Herberts.

You are not looking well, Miss Barbara." She made no answer.