"I----Well, you are all off, are you ?" "Quite time for us, I think," said Elinor.

"Good-bye." Mrs.Fairfax, with a second and more distant bow, passed out with Conolly and Douglas.

Elinor waited a moment to whisper to Marmaduke.
"First rate," said Marmaduke, in reply to the whisper; "and beginning to talk like one o'clock.

Oh yes, I tell you!" He shook Elinor's hand at such length in his gratitude for the inquiry that she was much relieved when a servant in livery interrupted him.
"Missus wants to speak to you, sir, afore she goes," said the man.
Elinor shook her head at Marmaduke, and hurried away to rejoin the rest outside.

As they went through the courtyard, they passed an open carriage, in which reclined a pretty woman with dark eyes and delicate artificial complexion.