"Captain Alton has promised that I shall sit next to you at dinner, and then we can have a good talk.

I don't know when I have been so much delighted with anything as I was with your book.

I have read it three times, what do you think of that for a busy woman ?" "I think there is some mistake," said Augusta, hurriedly and with a slight blush.

"I am a second-class passenger on board this ship, and therefore cannot have the pleasure of sitting next to Lady Holmhurst." "Oh, that is all right, Miss Smithers," said the captain, with a jolly laugh.

"You are my guest, and I shall take no denial." "When we find genius for once in our lives, we are not going to lose the opportunity of sitting at its feet," added Lady Holmhurst, with a little movement towards her which was neither curtsey nor bow, but rather a happy combination of both.