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"I know I a to like you I can tell directly I can see a

person--can't I Arthur?" and, kissing her hand to Mrs Meredith, Anna,

and the rector, too, she sprang into the carriage, and hirled

rapidly away

"Who is she?" Anna asked, and Mr Leighton replied: "She is an orphan niece of Colonel Hetherton's, and a great heiress, I

believe, though I never paidher wealth"

"You met in Europe?" Mrs Meredith said, and he replied: "Yes, she has been quite an invalid, and has spent four years abroad,

where I accidentally met her It was a very pleasant party, and I was

induced to join it, though I ith them in all not more than four

months"

He told this very rapidly, and an acute observer would have seen that

he did not care particularly to talk of Lucy Harcourt, with Anna for

an auditor She alking very de in

her ht the rector and

Lucy Harcourt into such fa

hihted to see hiht, and her

heart began to harden against the innocent Lucy, at that veryso pleasantly of her and of Arthur, too, replying to Mrs

Hetherton, who suggested that Mr Leighton would be yht that time ere in Rohton Isn't he

splendid, though, in his gown, and wasn't his serrand?"

"What was the text?" asked Dr Bellaolden curls and a merry twinkle of her eyes, Lucy