I was only very, very sorry." "Thank you," he said, as if she had expressed direct sympathy with himself.

"It's hard to believe, isn't it, that seven years ago she was--even lovelier than the beautiful Miss de Vigne, only in a very different style ?" "Not in the least," Dinah assured him.

"She is far lovelier than Rose now.

She must have been--beautiful." "She was," said Scott.

"She was like Eustace, except that she was always much softer than he is.