It's the greatest kindness we could do him, to take Minnie on board; and I am sure he is the sort of man any girl might fall in love with when she gets to know him.

The fact is, he's shy! He never had any sisters, and spends all his time in winter at that horrid club; so that really he has never had any women's society, and even with us he will never come unless he knows we are alone.

I call it a great pity, for I don't know a pleasanter fellow than he is.

I think it will be doing him a real service in asking Minnie; so that's settled.

I will sit down and write him a note." "In for a penny, in for a pound, I suppose," was Tom Virtue's comment when he received Mrs.Grantham's letter, thanking him warmly for the invitation, and saying that she would bring her cousin, Miss Graham, with her, if that young lady was disengaged.
As a matter of self defense he at once invited Jack Harvey, who was a mutual friend of himself and Grantham, to be of the party.
"Jack can help Grantham to amuse the women," he said to himself; "that will be more in his line than mine.