She sat with flushed cheeks, absorbed in a stream of thoughts and reminiscence.
"You look as though you had had good news," said Sir James Chide, as he paused beside her on his way through the drawing-room.

He was not a sportsman; nor was Mr.Ferrier.
His eyes rested upon her with such a kind interest, his manner showed so plainly yet again that he desired to be her friend, that Diana responded at once.
"I have found a cousin!" she said, gayly, and told the story of her expected visitor.
Outwardly--perfunctorily--Sir James's aspect while she was speaking answered to hers.

If she was pleased, he was pleased too.

He congratulated her; he entered into her schemes for Miss Merton's amusement.

Really, all the time, the man's aspect was singularly grave, he listened carefully to every word; he observed the speaker.
"The young lady's mother is your aunt ?" "She was my mother's sister." "And they have been long in Barbadoes ?" "I think they migrated there just about the same time we went abroad--after my mother's death." Sir James said little.