You will not object to my depriving you for a short time of her.

May I invite her home with me ?" "Certainly,--but she will not accept the invitation.

She is not acquainted with Mrs.Harlowe." "That makes no difference,--she will go with me, I am positive." They conversed in a low tone in one of the window recesses, but I heard what they said; and when Mrs.Linwood afterwards told me that Meg the Dauntless had gone off with the doctor in high glee, I was inexpressibly relieved, for I had conceived an unconquerable terror of her.

There was other company in the house, as Edith had prophesied, but in a mansion so large and so admirably arranged, an invalid might be kept perfectly quiet without interfering with the social enjoyment of others.
I was slowly but surely recovering.

At night Edith had her harp placed in the upper piazza, and sang and played some of her sweetest and most soothing strains.