When a man seeks a _tete-a-tete_ so earnestly, it is generally to talk about himself.

Did the schemes include--Sarah ?" "They include Sarah--marriage--travelling--London--change of every kind." "Already!" cried John, "Bravo, Peter! and hurray for one-and-twenty! And you are free ?" "Oh, no; I am not to be free." "What! Do his schemes include you ?" "Not altogether." "That is surely illogical, if yours are to include him ?" She smiled faintly.

"I am to be always here, to look after the place when he and Sarah are travelling or in London.

I am to live with his aunts.

He wants to be able to think of me as always waiting here to welcome him home, as--as I have been all his life.