I said so at once to Bertha." "I suppose," said Will, "Miss Cross will never dare to enter the shop again ?" "She doesn't come!" "Never since," he answered laughingly.

"Her mother has been once or twice, and seems to regard me with a very suspicious eye.

Mrs.Cross was told no doubt ?" "That I really can't say," replied Rosamund, averting her eyes.

"But doesn't it do one good to hear such a story, Norbert ?" she added impulsively.
"Yes, that's pluck," replied her husband, with the old spontaneity, in his eyes the old honest look which hitherto had somehow been a little obscured.

"I know very well that _I_ couldn't have done it." Warburton had not looked at Rosamund since her explanation and apology.