"Mr.Selincourt has been to see me, and I like him so very much." Katherine nearly dropped her basket of eggs, being so much astonished; then, pulling herself together with an effort, she managed to say in a natural tone, although her face was rather white: "I am glad you liked him.

Did he stay long ?" "Yes, ever so long, and he is coming again soon.

He thinks of settling here, and building a house.

I am so glad, for I think I never met a man whom I liked better," he replied.
"Then it is lucky that I pulled him out of the mud," put in Phil, who was very much disposed to swagger about his share in rescuing Mr.Selincourt.

"But if he'd been a disagreeable animal, I might have been sorry that I had not left him there." Katherine stood in a dumb amazement at the miracle which had been wrought.