"Is it indeed you, Ellen! I should as soon have expected to see a fairy here."
"Mrs. Cumberland has gone to call on Mr. North. She told me to wait for her."
"I have been with Dick to take my uncle and James to the station," spoke Captain Bohun, pitching upon it as something to say, for his tongue was never too fluent when alone with her. "He has been asking me to go and stay with him."
"Sir Nash has?"
"Yes. Jimmy invites no one; he is taken up with his missionaries, and that."
"Shall you go?"
Their eyes met as she put the question. Go! away from her!
"I think not," he quietly answered. "Not at present. Miss Bohun's turn must come first: she has been writing for me this long time."
"That's your aunt."
"My aunt. And a good old soul she is. Won't you walk about a little, Ellen?"