We should always have Margaret at home when he goes to sea!" "But mind, Ethel, for your life you must not say one word to any living creature." "Oh, no, I promise you I won't, Norman, if you'll only tell me how you found it out." "What first put it in my head was the first evening, while I was undoing the portmanteau; my father leaned on the mantel-shelf, and sighed and muttered, 'Poor Ernescliffe! I wish it may end well.' I thought he forgot that I was there, so I would not seem to notice, but I soon saw it was that he meant." "How ?" cried Ethel eagerly.
"Oh, I don't know--by Alan's way." "Tell me--I want to know what people do when they are in love." "Nothing particular," said Norman, smiling.
"Did you hear him inquire for her?
How did he look ?" "I can't tell.

That was when he met us at the station before I thought of it, and I had to see to the luggage.

But I'll tell you one thing, Ethel; when papa was talking of her to Mrs.Mackenzie, at the other end of the room, all his attention went away in an instant from what he was saying.

And once, when Harry said something to me about her, he started, and looked round so earnestly." "Oh, yes--that's like people in books.

And did he colour ?" "No; I don't recollect that he did," said Norman; "but I observed he never asked directly after her if he could help it, but always was trying to lead, in some round-about way, to hearing what she was doing." "Did he call her Margaret ?" "I watched; but to me he always said, 'Your sister,' and if he had to speak of her to papa, he said, 'Miss May.' And then you should have seen his attention to papa.