"Oh, the one that caught me looking in the window, mamma, the youngest one--" "Did he speak of it ?" Mrs.Vertrees asked, apprehensively.
"No.

He didn't speak at all, that I saw, to any one.

I didn't meet him.
But he isn't insane, I'm sure; or if he is, he has long intervals when he's not.

Mr.James Sheridan mentioned that he lived at home when he was 'well enough'; and it may be he's only an invalid.

He looks dreadfully ill, but he has pleasant eyes, and it struck me that if--if one were in the Sheridan family"-- she laughed a little ruefully--"he might be interesting to talk to sometimes, when there was too much stocks and bonds.