I must go in another direction; _I_ can't do it." "Arnold can do it!" Sir Patrick looked a little doubtful.

"Arnold is an excellent fellow," he said.

"But can we trust to his discretion ?" "He is, next to you, the most perfectly discreet person I know," rejoined Blanche, in a very positive manner; "and, what is more, I have told him every thing about Anne, except what has happened to-day.

I am afraid I shall tell him _that,_ when I feel lonely and miserable, after you have gone.

There is something in Arnold--I don't know what it is--that comforts me.