They complain bitterly of your desertion, and say you were, at first, the _enfant de la maison_." "So you like the Mertons?
The clergyman is sensible, but commonplace." "A very agreeable man, despite your cynical definition, and plays a very fair rubber.

But Vargrave is a first-rate player." "Vargrave is there still ?" "Yes, he breakfasts with us to-morrow,--he invited himself." "Humph!" "He played one rubber; the rest of the evening he devoted himself to the prettiest girl I ever saw,--Miss Cameron.

What a sweet face! so modest, yet so intelligent! I talked with her a good deal during the deals in which I cut out.

I almost lost my heart to her." "So Lord Vargrave devoted himself to Miss Cameron ?" "To be sure,--you know they are to be married soon.

Merton told me so.
She is very rich.