We have been visiting Dartmoor, my brother and I, with a release for--for that M.Raoul." "So I understood." He noted that her confusion had gone as suddenly as it came.
"But since I am back in time, and it appears I was so fortunate as to win his regard, I would ask to see him--if it be permitted, and I may have your escort." "Certainly, Mademoiselle.

You will, perhaps, wish to consult your brother though ?" "I see no necessity," she answered.
* * * * * * * * * The General was not the only one to discover a new and firmer note in Dorothea's voice.

Life at Bayfield slipped back into its old comfortable groove, but the brothers fell--and one of them consciously--into a habit of including her in their conversations and even of asking her advice.

One day there arrived a bulky parcel for Narcissus; so bulky indeed and so suspiciously heavy, that it bore signs of several agitated official inspections, and nothing short of official deference to Endymion (under cover of whom it was addressed) could account for its having come through at all.

For it came from France.