"Was Rose with you ?" "I was not so blessed.

I had only Doctor Frank--Oh, don't be in a hurry to leave us; it is not dinner-time yet." This last to Rose, who was edging off, still the picture of confusion, and one hand clutching something white, hidden in the folds of her dress.

With a confused apology, she turned suddenly, and disappeared among the trees.

Kate fixed her large, deep eyes suspiciously on her lover's laughing face.
"Well ?" she said, inquiringly.
"Well ?" he repeated, mimicking her tone.
"What is the meaning of all this ?" Stanford laughed carelessly, and drew her hand within his arm.
"It means, my dear, that pretty sister of yours is a goose! I paid her a compliment, and she blushed after it, at sight of you, as if I had been talking love to her.

Come, let us have a walk before dinner." "I thought I saw you give her something?
Was it a letter ?" Not a muscle of his face moved; not a shadow of change was in his tone, as he answered: "A letter! Of course not.