As she raised her head to reply, Dr.Bryant entered, and started visibly on seeing her, Mrs.Carlton endeavored to regain her composure; and, with a slightly faltering voice, asked how he succeeded in procuring horses?
"Better than I had hoped," was the rejoinder; and he held out his hand to Mary.

She gave him hers, now cold as ice.

He held it a moment, and pressed it gently, saying: "You see my sister is going to run away on the first intimation of danger.

I hope she has not infected you with her fears; though, to judge from your looks, I should almost predict a stampede in another direction." "Indeed you are quite right.

Florry and I are going with her; though we had decided on leaving before we knew she intended doing so." "Ah! you did not seem to apprehend any immediate danger when we conversed on this subject a few days since.