He sighed gently.
“And Annie,” she continued.
He sighed again, and Jane took a slight glance at him cornerwise.
“And me too, I hope,” she said, in a low voice.
“Miss you!” repeated his lordship, in a suffocating voice. “I should miss the sun less.”
“I am so glad,” said Jane, clasping her hands; “it is so nice to feel that one is not quite forgotten. Of course, I can never forget you. You are the only nobleman I have ever met.”
“I hope that it is not only because of that,” he said, forlornly.
Miss Rose pondered. When she pondered her eyes increased in size and revealed unsuspected depths.
“No-o,” she said at length, in a hesitating voice.
“Suppose that I were not what I am represented to be,” he said slowly. “Suppose that, instead of being Lord Fairmount, I were merely a clerk.”