Not experienced in beautiful things." And Mary looked mighty demure.
"Of course not.

What am I thinking of?
You are only a child." "A little more than that, _please_." "At all events, love beautified _her_." "I saw no difference.

She was always a lovely girl." "Why, you said she was 'a long black thing.'" "Oh, that was before--she looked engaged." After this young Fitzroy was generally Miss Clifford's companion in her many walks, and Walter Clifford had a delightful time with Mary Bartley.
Her nurse discovered how matters were going.

But she said nothing.

From something Bartley let fall years ago she divined that Bartley was robbing Walter Clifford by substituting Hope's child for his own, and she thought the mischief could be repaired and the sin atoned for if he and Mary became man and wife.