"They're uncommonly jolly little buffers!" said Leonard, kindly, meaning it for the highest praise.
"They've no fool's flesh about them," said Jack; "and they can make a fiver go further than any one I know. A man might do worse than marry one of them."
"Hardly!" thought Leonard, "unless he married both."
"It would be a fine thing for Dop if Mr. Hamleigh were to come to the scratch," mused Jack.
"I wonder what was Leonard's motive in asking Mr. Hamleigh to stay at Mount Royal?" said Christabel, suddenly, after she and Jessie had been talking of indifferent subjects.
"I hope he had not any motive, but that the invitation was the impulse of the moment, without rhyme or reason," answered Miss Bridgeman.
"Why?"
"Because if he had a motive, I don't think it could be a good one."
"Might he not think it just possible that he was finding a husband for one of his friend's sisters?" speculated Christabel.