Beatrice sang song after song with a passion and fire that told how deep the music lay in her soul.
Then Lady Helena bade Lillian bring out her folio of drawings, and again Lord Earle was pleased and surprised by the skill and talent he had not looked for.

He praised the drawings highly.

One especially attracted his attention--it was the pretty scene Lillian had sketched on the May day now so long passed--the sun shining upon the distant white sails, and the broad, beautiful sweep of sea at Knutsford.
"That is an excellent picture," he said; "it ought to be framed.

It is too good to be hidden in a folio.

You have just caught the right coloring, Lillian; one can almost see the sun sparkling on the water.
Where is this sea-view taken from ?" "Do you not know it ?" she asked, looking at him with wonder in her eyes.