But it is easy to be gracious in a new country; and the brother was sometimes inclined to give himself airs.

Anderson drew in his tentacles a little; ready indeed to be wroth with himself that he had talked so much of his own affairs to this little lady the day before.

What possible interest could she have taken in them! All the same, he could not tear himself from her side.

Whenever Delaine left his seat by the lake, and strolled round the corner of the wood to reconnoitre, the result was always the same.

If Anderson and Lady Merton were in sight at all, near or far, they were together.