I shall understand your poem so much better, you know, if I can but realise the people and the place.

And you must take me to see Captain Willis, too, and even the Lieutenant--if he does not smell too much of brandy.

I will be so gracious and civil, quite the lady of the castle." "You will make quite a royal progress," said Lucia, looking at her with sisterly admiration.
"Yes, I intend to usurp as many of Scoutbush's honours as I can till he comes.

I must lay down the sceptre in a fortnight, you know, so I shall make as much use of it as I can meanwhile." And so on, and so on; meaning all the while to put Elsley quite at his ease, and let him understand that bygones were bygones, and that with her any reconciliation at all was meant to be a complete one; which was wise and right enough.

But Valencia had not counted on the excitable and vain nature with which she was dealing; and Lucia, who had her own fears from the first evening, was the last person in the world to tell her of it; first from pride in herself, and then from pride in her husband.