The sun isn't always shining." He appeared to be elated with some secret good news.
"Have you been over to Besworth, the last two or three days ?" he asked.
The ladies smiled radiantly, acknowledging Wilfrid's wonderful persuasive powers, in their hearts.
"No, papa; we have not been," said Adela.

"We are always anxious to go, as I think you know." The merchant chirped over his glass.

"Well, well! There's a way." "Straight ?" "Over a gate; ha, ha!" His gaiety would have been perplexing, but for the allusion to Lady Charlotte.
The sisters, in their unfailing midnight consultation, persuaded one another that Wilfrid had become engaged to that lady.

They wrote forthwith Fine Shades to him on the subject.

His answer was Boeotian, and all about Besworth.