Perhaps your friends have also gone into the gallery.

While we are both waiting, shall we look round this delightful place?
and may I tell you a little of what I know about it ?" It was in this manner, and apparently quite by accident, that Jasmine made the acquaintance of Arthur Noel, who turned out to be one of the best friends the girls were to make in London.

Mr.Noel had taken a fancy to Jasmine's sweet little face, and Jasmine, when she met with a sympathetic listener, could be only too communicative.

Before Miss Slowcum and her sisters and Poppy joined them Mr.Noel knew something of Jasmine's ambitions and of Primrose's modest hopes.

Jasmine had even confided to him the brave resolve the three sisters had made not to sigh, or grumble, or wear themselves out with useless tears.