"If you will," said Mattie, a little nervously.
"What does Miss Wesden think?—you have seen her very frequently since the meeting at Doctor Bario's?"
"On the contrary, I have not seen her at all."
"Miss Gray! Miss Gray!" he said, reproachfully, "you are not working heart and soul with me! Here are two human beings who love each other, and will never be happy without each other, and we are letting time go by and harden them."
"I thought that Miss Wesden would have called here, and that we might have proceeded on our plan with less formality. But if she do not come shortly, I must visit her."
"Thank you—just sound her, if you can. She's a girl that will not be ashamed to own what impression the meeting with Sidney has made upon her; and after that, we'll set to work in earnest."
"I will write to her this evening, asking her to spend an hour with me."
"Ah! that's a good plan—looks better than calling. Now I will just tell you how we might manage to bring Sidney and her together—you're not busy?"
"No."
"Nor I. I have given myself the whole day to mature this plan, and if you consider it feasible, why we will carry it out, and chance the dénouement."