But she used to look at me in a strange pitiful sort of way, and shake her head.

'I am very miserable, Sarah,' she would say to me; 'I am quite alone in the world now my dear uncle is gone, and I don't know what to do.' I told her she ought to look forward to the time when she would be married, and would have a happy home of her own; but I could never get her to talk of that." "Can you tell me the name and address of her friends in London--the young ladies with whom she went to school ?" "The name is Bruce, sir; and they live, or they used to live at that time, in St.John's-wood.

I have heard Miss Nowell say that, but I don't know the name of the street or number of the house." "I daresay I shall be able to find them.

It is a strange business, Sarah.
It is most unaccountable that my dearest girl should have left Lidford without writing me word of her removal and her intentions with regard to the future--that she should have sent me no announcement of her uncle's death, although she must have known how well I loved him, I am going to ask you a question that is very painful to me, but which must be asked sooner or later.

Do you know of any one else whom she may have liked better than me--any one whose influence may have governed her at the time she left Lidford ?" "No, indeed, sir," replied the woman, promptly.