She is very kind to me." "I think you are entirely right in deciding to stay here," he said, looking around at her, and contrasting in his mind the bright-faced, and somewhat plump young person walking beside him with the thin-faced girl in black whom he had seen behind the cashier's desk.
"Now," said she, with a vivacious little laugh, "I have poured out my whole soul before you, and, in return, I want you to gratify a curiosity which is fairly eating me up.

Why were you so anxious to find my Cousin Junius?
And how did you happen to come here the very day after he arrived?
And, more than that, how was it that you had seen him at Midbranch so recently?
You were talking about it last night.

It couldn't have been my letter from Howlett's that brought you down here ?" "No," said Lawrence, "my meeting with Mr Keswick at Midbranch was entirely accidental.

When I arrived there, a few days ago, I had no reason to suppose that I should meet him.

But I must ask you to excuse me from giving my reasons for wishing to find your cousin, and for coming to see him here.