I return to London in a few hours.' 'You are going sooner than you intended ?' 'Yes, I feel I mustn't waste any more time.

I think the country air is doing you good; you certainly look better than when I passed you that first day.' 'I feel better, much.' 'My sisters are anxious to see you again.

I shouldn't wonder if they come up this afternoon.' Marian had seated herself on the sofa, and her hands were linked upon her lap in the same way as when Jasper spoke with her here before, the palms downward.

The beautiful outline of her bent head was relieved against a broad strip of sunlight on the wall behind her.
'They deplore,' he continued in a moment, 'that they should come to know you only to lose you again so soon.
'I have quite as much reason to be sorry,' she answered, looking at him with the slightest possible smile.

'But perhaps they will let me write to them, and hear from them now and then.' 'They would think it an honour.