Haven't you a photograph ?" she added carelessly.
"Such a thing doesn't exist.

Like myself, he hasn't had a portrait taken since he was a child.

A curious thing, by-the-bye, that you should have had yours taken just when you did.

Of course it was because you were going far away for the first time; but it marked a point in your life, and put on record the Eve Madeley whom no one would see again If I can't get that photograph in any other way I shall go and buy, beg, or steal it from Mrs.Brewer." "Oh, you shall have one if you insist upon it." "Why did you refuse it before ?" "I hardly know--a fancy--I thought you would keep looking at it, and regretting that I had changed so." As on her previous visit, she soon ceased to talk, and, in listening to Hilliard, showed unconsciously a tired, despondent face.
"Nothing yet," fell from her lips, when he had watched her silently.
"Never mind; I hate the mention of it." "By-the-bye," he resumed, "Narramore astounded me by hinting at marriage.

It's Miss Birching, the sister of my man.