What for,--to show to you ?" "Very likely.

Have you the letter still?
May I see it ?" "Not just at present.

When Lilian or Mrs.Ashleigh writes to you, come and tell me how they like their visit, and what other guests form the party." Therewith she turned away and conversed apart with the traveller.
Her words disquieted me, and I felt that they were meant to do so, wherefore I could not guess.

But there is no language on earth which has more words with a double meaning than that spoken by the Clever Woman, who is never so guarded as when she appears to be frank.
As I walked home thoughtfully, I was accosted by a young man, the son of one of the wealthiest merchants in the town.

I had attended him with success some months before, in a rheumatic fever: he and his family were much attached to me.
"Ah, my dear Fenwick, I am so glad to see you; I owe you an obligation of which you are not aware,--an exceedingly pleasant travelling-companion.