Spunky as ever, eh ?" and he tried to pinch her glowing cheek.
"Pray don't be foolish," was 'Lina's impatient reply, as she drew away from him, and turned, with her blandest smile, to a sprig of a lawyer from Frankfort, who chanced to be there too.
Chilled by her manner, Hugh ordered the carriage, and told her they were ready.

Once inside the carriage, and alone with him, 'Lina's tongue was loosened, and she poured out numberless questions, the first of which was, what they heard from Adah, and if it were true, as her mother had written, that she was at Terrace Hill as Rose Markham, and that no one there knew of her acquaintance with Spring Bank?
Yes, he supposed it was, and he did not like it either.

"Ad," and he turned his honest face full toward her, "does that doctor still believe you rich ?" "How do I know ?" 'Lina replied, frowning gloomily.

"I'm not to blame if he does.

I never told him I was." "But your actions implied as much, which amounts to the same thing.