"Do you wish me to leave you, or will you let me stay a little ?" She took it all humanely.

"I don't wish you to leave me, Lord Warburton; I'm very glad to see you." "Thank you for saying that.

May I sit down ?" The fluted shaft on which she had taken her seat would have afforded a resting-place to several persons, and there was plenty of room even for a highly-developed Englishman.

This fine specimen of that great class seated himself near our young lady, and in the course of five minutes he had asked her several questions, taken rather at random and to which, as he put some of them twice over, he apparently somewhat missed catching the answer; had given her too some information about himself which was not wasted upon her calmer feminine sense.

He repeated more than once that he had not expected to meet her, and it was evident that the encounter touched him in a way that would have made preparation advisable.