I hope you, on your side, have enjoyed each other's society." "My dear daughter," said Mrs.Light, taking the arm of her predestined son-in-law, "I shall have something serious to say to you when we reach home.

We will go back to the carriage." "Something serious! Decidedly, it is the Inquisition.

Mr.Hudson, stand firm, and let us agree to make no confessions without conferring previously with each other! They may put us on the rack first.

Mr.
Mallet, I see also," Christina added, "has something serious to say to me!" Rowland had been looking at her with the shadow of his lately-stirred pity in his eyes.

"Possibly," he said.