"You are very, very good!" said Dolly, with her eyes glistening, and speaking from hearty conviction.
"Whom are you talking to? I have not heard my name yet."
"I have not got accustomed to you yet, you know," Dolly said with a little nervous laugh. "Besides,—I never did."
"Never did what?"
"I never called you anything but—Mr. Shubrick."
"Christina did."
"Poor Christina!" said Dolly.
"Why?" said the other merrily. "She is the rich Mrs. St. Leger; why do you say 'Poor Christina'?"
"I am afraid I have come between her and happiness," Dolly said, blushing frankly.
"You have no occasion to say that," Sandie said, laughing. "She has got what she wanted. There was a terrible danger that she might have come between me and happiness. But for her—I am not at all sure that she would have been happy with me."