You see the ill-luck of it was, those two and I being alone in the house.

I may as well say Maude and I alone; for the old woman kept her room very much; she had a cold, she said, and was afraid of the fever." "Tush!" cried Thomas Carr angrily.

"And you made love to the young lady ?" "As fast as I could make it.

What a fool I was! But I protest I only did it in amusement; I never thought of her supplanting Anne Ashton.

Now, Carr, you are looking as you used to look at Oxford; get your brow smooth again.