Go and give your letter to Herbert, tell him it has my unqualified approval, and then return to me.

I marked some beautiful passages in one of our favourite authors the other day and you shall read them to me.

Now run away, and come back quickly." Ellen obeyed gladly and gratefully, and was enabled playfully to return the smile with which Herbert received her letter and his mother's message.

Mrs.Hamilton felt more and more convinced that her suspicions were correct, and that her niece's affections were unhappily engaged.
She thought again and again who could be their object, and still she fancied it was Arthur Myrvin.

She scarcely knew why herself, except from Ellen's agitation the night of his arrival at Oakwood, and engagement with Emmeline.