But you must come and meet the girl herself at my sister's next Friday.

She will be there at afternoon tea.

I told Agnes I should ask anybody I liked.

I warned her--you know her little weaknesses!--that she had better be first in the field: a month hence, it will be impossible to get hold of Miss Bretherton at all.' 'Then I'll certainly come, and do my worshipping before the crowd collects,' said Kendal, adding, as he half-curiously shifted his eye-glass so as to take in Wallace's bronzed, alert countenance, 'How did you happen to know her ?' 'Rutherford introduced me.

He's an old friend of mine.' 'Well,' said Kendal, moving off, 'Friday, then.