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little rest, as slie drove about to all tlie nice 

 places in the neighbourhood. 



' By the way, Alfred,' said she, on one of 

 these occasions, 'have Mr. Miller and Miss 

 Lancelot quarrelled ? ' 



' Not that I know of,' said he. ' Why ? ' 



* Because both Ray and I thought that he 

 was very short and reserved when she was 

 there ; he noticed it when they met on the 

 course, I could not help doing so at the ball 

 the other night.' 



' Now listen to me, Mary, my dear. When 

 first we met you told me that I looked worried, 

 and I said I would tell you some day all about 

 it. Here goes. We saw a great deal of 

 Miss Lancelot on the passage, as Reginald, she, 

 and I all sat together at the captain's table. 

 We were capital friends before we had been 

 two days at sea. We both fell in love with 

 her, though I was much harder hit than 

 Reginald. In fact, she was so delightfully kind, 

 and seemed to like being with me so much, 

 that I actually proposed to her in New York 



