I am her guardian, you know." "You are a young guardian.

But, as I was about to say, that makes us connected in some way, doesn't it?
I won't call you Mr.Harding, for that would sound too formal.

I will call you Jack." "I wish you would," said our hero, his face brightening with pride.
It almost upset him to be called Jack by a beautiful lady, who every day of her life was accustomed to live in a splendor which it seemed to Jack could not be exceeded even by royal state.

Had Mrs.Clifton been Queen Victoria herself, he could not have felt a profounder respect and veneration for her than he did already.
"Now, Jack," said Mrs.Clifton, in a friendly manner which delighted our hero, "we must take measures to discover Ida immediately.

I want you to tell me about her disappearance from your house, and what steps you have taken thus far toward finding her." Jack began at the beginning and described the appearance of Mrs.
Hardwick; how she had been permitted to carry Ida away under false representations, and the manner in which he had tracked her to Philadelphia.