So real was it, that it never seemed to occur to him that there was anything unusual in his expressing such intense interest in the affairs of a young lady with whom he was outwardly, at any rate, on the terms of merest acquaintance.
"It was very kind of you to think so much about me," said Augusta, gently.

"I had no idea that you would call again, or I would have left word where I was going." "Well, thank God you are safe and sound, at any rate," answered Eustace; and then, with a sudden burst of anxiety, "you are not going back to New Zealand just yet, are you ?" "I don't know.

I am rather sick of the sea just now." "No, indeed, she is not," said Lady Holmhurst; "she is going to stop with me and Dick.

Miss Smithers saved Dick's life, you know, when the nurse, poor thing, had run away.

And now, dear, you had better tell Mr.Meeson about the will." "The will.