Depend upon it, I said, Miss Garston will hardly have a minute to give to our idle chatter.

She will be wanting to get to her sick people, and wish us at Hanover.

Still, as my cousin Giles said, we must do the right thing and call, though I am sure you are not a conventional person; neither am I.Oh, we are quite kindred souls here.' I tried to receive this speech in good part, but I certainly protested inwardly against the notion that Miss Darrell and I would ever be kindred souls.

I felt an instinctive repugnance to her voice; its want of tone jarred on me; and all the time she talked, her hard, bright eyes seemed to dart restlessly from Miss Hamilton to me.

I felt sure that nothing could escape their scrutiny; but now and then, when one looked at her in return, she seemed to veil them most curiously under the long curling lashes.
She was rather an elegant-looking woman, but her face was decidedly plain.