The two great, wondering dark eyes transfixing her with so much amazement, brought Leoline to a sense of her talking unfathomable mysteries, quite incomprehensible to her handsome auditor.

She looked at him with a smile, held out her hand; and Hubert received a strange little electric thrill, to see that her eyes were full of tears.

He took the hand and raised it to his lips, wondering if the young lady, struck by his good looks, had conceived a rash and inordinate attack of love at first sight, and was about to offer herself to him and discard Sir Norman for ever.

From this speculation, the sweet voice aroused him.
"You have told me who you are.

Now, do you know who I am ?" "I hope so, fairest Leoline.