Youre looking as well as possible." Conolly took his hand, and retained it whilst he said: "Good-bye, Mr.
Lind.

I am quite well, thank you.

If I may ask--how is Susanna ?" Marmaduke was prevented by a spasm of the throat from replying.

Before he recovered, Susanna herself, attired for her proposed trip to Hampton, emerged from the shrubbery and stood before them, confounded.

Conolly, still wearing the cordial expression with which he had shaken Marmaduke's hand, looked at her, then at her protector, and then at her again.
"I have been admiring the villa, Susanna," said he, after an emphatic silence.