She examined everything, in a swift keen scrutiny, and then as the pouncing glance came back to her cousin, the girl suddenly exclaimed: "Goodness! but you are like Aunt Sparling!" Diana flushed crimson.

She drew back and said, hurriedly, to Mrs.
Colwood: "Muriel, would you see if they have taken the luggage up-stairs ?" Mrs.Colwood went at once.
Fanny Merton had herself changed color, and looked a little embarrassed.
She did not repeat her remark, but began to take her furs off, to smooth her hair deliberately, and settle her bracelets.

Diana came nearer to her as soon as they were alone.
"Do you really think I am like mamma ?" she said, tremulously, all her eyes fixed upon her cousin.
"Well, of course I never saw her!" said Miss Merton, looking down at the fire.

"How could I?
But mother has a picture of her, and you're as like as two peas." "I never saw any picture of mamma," said Diana; "I don't know at all what she was like." "Ah, well--" said Miss Merton, still looking down.

Then she stopped, and said no more.