know you like women to be philip betrayed you he said so one day when you were not here oh i know is fierce on that point he makes it quite a personal matter i think he must be love sick for some unknown lady � some exalted whom he met abroad by the by i said pausing in her work it has just occurred to me that have never found out whether my cousin will object to see philip as her brother does tom will not enter a room where is if he knows it perhaps may be the same and then we shan t be able to sing our � shall we thb mill on the fl s � what i is your cousin coming to stay with you said with a look of slight annoyance yes that was my news which you have forgotten she s going to leave her situation where she has been nearly two years poor thing � ever since her father s death and she will stay with me a month or two � many months i hope and am i bound to be pleased at that news oh no not at all said with a little air of i am pleased but that of course is no reason why y m should be pleased there is no girl in the world i love so weu as my cousin and you will be inseparable i suppose when she comes will be no possibility of a with you any more unless you can find an admirer for her who will pair off with her occasionally what is the ground of dislike to philip he might have been a resource it is a family quarrel with philip s there were very painful circumstances i believe i never quite understood them or knew them all my uncle was unfortunate and lost all his property and i think he mr was somehow the cause of it mr bought mill my uncle s old place where he always you must remember my don t you no said with rather indifference i ve always known the name and i i knew the man by si ht apart from his name i know half the names and m the neighborhood in that detached way he was a very hot tempered man i remember when i was a little girl and used to go to see my cousins he often frightened me by talking as if he were angry papa told me there was a dreadful quarrel the very day before my uncle s death between him and mr but it was hushed up that was when you were in london papa says my uncle was quite mistaken in many ways his mind had become but tom and must naturally feel it very painful to be reminded of these things they have had so much � so very much trouble was at school with me six years ago when she was fetched away because of her other s misfortunes and she has hardly had any pleasure since i think she has been in a dreary situation m a school since uncle s death because she is determined to be independent and not live with aunt nd i could hardly wish her to come to me then because dear mamma was ill and everything was so sad that is why i want her to come to me now and have a long long very sweet and of you said looking at s thb ok the her with an admiring smile and all the more so if she has the of her mother poor i you are cruel to ridicule her she is to m� i know she the house beautifully � much better than any stranger would � and she was a great comfort to me in mamma s illness yes but in point of companionship one would prefer that she should be represented by her brandy and i think with a shudder that her daughter will always be present in person and have no agreeable of that kind � a girl with round blue eyes who will stare at us silently oh yes exclaimed laughing and clapping her hands that is just my cousin you must have seen her i no indeed i m only what mrs s daughter must be and then if she is to banish philip our only apology for a tenor that will be an additional bore but i hope that may not be i think i will ask you to call on philip and tell him is coming to morrow he is quite aware of tom s feeling and always keeps out of his way so he will understand if you tell him that i asked you to warn him not to come until i write to ask him i think you had better write a pretty note for me to take so sensitive you know the least thing might frighten him off coming at all and we had hard work to get him i can never induce him to come to the park he doesn t like my sisters i think it is only your � a ry touch that can lay his ruffled feathers mastered the little hand that was towards the table and touched it lightly with his lips little felt proud and happy she and were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth the fi blossom time of passion � when each is sure of the other s love but no formal declaration has been made and all is mutual the most trivial word the gesture into delicate and scent the of an engagement wears off finest edge of it is gathered and presented in a large but it is really odd that you should have hit so exactly on s appearance and manners said the cunning moving to reach her desk because she might have 