A moment later she was whispering to her companion.
"I am sure he is watching us.

I am going to ask you to stick close beside me when we get to New York until I find a hackney-coach." "Have you been to New York often ?" asked the girl, smiling.
"I have been there twice in the last thirty years; but I spent several winters there when I was a young girl.

I suppose it has changed a good deal in that time ?" The young lady also supposed that it had changed in that time, and wondered why Miss Brooke--the name the other had given--did not come to New York oftener.
"You see, it is such an undertaking to go now," said the old lady.
"Everything goes with such a rush that it takes my breath away.

Why, three trains a day each way pass near my home now.

One of them actually rushes by in the most impetuous and disdainful way.