‘Most interesting.’
‘You know the pleasaunce.’
‘Yes.’
‘I did not see you when I was at Armine.’
‘No; we had just gone to Italy.’
‘How beautiful you look to-day, Henrietta!’ said Miss Grandison. ‘Who could believe that you ever were so ill!’
‘I am grateful that I have recovered,’ said Henrietta. ‘And yet I never thought that I should return to England.’
‘You must have been so very ill in Italy, about the same time as poor Ferdinand was at Armine. Only think, how odd you should both have been so ill about the same time, and now that we should all be so intimate!’
Miss Temple looked perplexed and annoyed. ‘Is it so odd?’ she at length said in a low tone.
‘Henrietta Temple,’ said Miss Grandison, with great earnestness, ‘I have discovered a secret; you are the lady with whom my cousin is in love.’