Accident has brought us together, and in one sense they are our friends.

We should probably do any little kindness for them, or expect the same from them; but there is nothing in common between us, and there is generally a mutual though unexpressed agreement that there shall be nothing in common.

Miss Amedroz was intimately acquainted with Colonel Askerton after this fashion.

She saw him very frequently, and his name was often on her tongue; but she rarely, if ever, conversed with him, and knew of his habits only from his wife's words respecting them.

When, therefore, he followed her through the garden gate into the park, she was driven to suppose that he had something special to say to her.
"I'm afraid you'll have a dark walk, Miss Amedroz," he said.
"It's only just across the park, and I know the way so well." "Yes,--of course.