"But if you will not go, you must at least tell me which I am to take.

I will not pretend to have a choice in the matter." "Well, then," she answered, "I should be glad to see you take Eunane.
She is, I think, the eldest, apparently the most intelligent and companionable, and she has had one mortification already she hardly deserved." "And is much the prettiest," I added maliciously.

But Eveena was incapable of even understanding so direct an appeal to feminine jealousy.
"I think so," she said; "much the prettiest among us.

But that will make no difference under her veil." "And must she keep down her veil," I asked, "in our own grounds ?" Eveena laughed.

"Wherever she might be seen by any man but yourself." "Call her then," I answered.
Eveena hesitated.