I admired her dark eyes, and was only too glad to seize the excuse her education offered me for believing her a match for me in mind as well as in body." Miss Wilson, astonished, determined to tell him coldly that her time was valuable.

But curiosity took possession of her in the act of utterance, and the words that came were, "Who was she ?" "Henrietta Jansenius.

She is Henrietta Trefusis, and I am Sidney Trefusis, at your mercy.

I see I have aroused your compassion at last." "Nonsense!" said Miss Wilson hastily; for her surprise was indeed tinged by a feeling that he was thrown away on Henrietta.
"I ran away from her and adopted this retreat and this disguise in order to avoid her.

The usual rebuke to human forethought followed.