said between laughing and crying i had no idea till we met how my sentiments towards her had changed you have to answer for it i hope i may never have anything heavier to answer for said to me she so clearly seems not only artificial but that i think her an companion for you what designs can she have said in the first place she designs to make you think her very attached to you which i really believe is not the case well i have my doubts about it too said � though once you could not have hurt me more than by saying so what can have made me and so sharp sighted i suppose living with so truthful and honest a person as yourself knowing what the real thing is i have learnt to detect the it may be so said but very young persons are apt to be deceived by any who think it worth their while or worth their said there i have made an english especially if they flatter pursued which she certainly did sometimes said and i am afraid i liked it i had nothing better to like then what do you like better now inquired common sense plain dealing and sincere affection � you dear said kissing her number forty nine said laughing why you cross cold creature would you have one live without kissing at all ah there is the old driving away from the door and there is mr standing on the steps well papa has soon picked up a visitor tell me how old do you think he is m � � no no mr oh perhaps thirty two or thirty three � he cannot be less than thirty three i think that s rather old for what said and for whom you mean said what i cried is he to be the successor to no you stupid of course i was thinking of thank you said laughing but i have no views of the kind you seem to allude to nor i think has he he is certainly not very handsome said and yet he has a pleasant cheerful face � a good countenance as people say � a sensible head good forehead quick eye and pleasant smile is he above or below the average of your countrymen you may take him as a pretty fair average specimen pray is m an average specimen of yours well there you have the advantage of me certainly at our table to day the english will bear the palm you and mr against paul and papa � why not against paul and you said that would be more polite and more dutiful i think certainly said but here is mr waiting to receive us well mr welcome cordially welcome to the surprise is equal to the pleasure and i concluded you would be surprised said he laughing and offering his hand to assist her from the carriage but m was so pressing there was no refusing him and i thought it would be so nice to come down here and get on with my book oh if that is all it is paying us a very poor compliment said well but the town was so dull without you there was no bearing it even for twenty four hours and he � what s the dull town to me robin s not here for robin read or whichever you like certainly said but this is very perverse of you mr did i not press you as much as a lady could to come here the very evening before we started � but m did hem that is true you remind me what a very young lady i am and what has now made papa more gracious why i took his part yesterday in rather an awkward affair going to the public office i heard high words proceeding from your father s surprised to hear his voice i looked in and found a young fellow in a furious rage ready to collar him and of course that would not do i came to the rescue and took the by the of the neck rascal proved to be one of your precious who had taken advantage of your father s absence to open his desk with a false key exclaimed and in dismay the very fellow so of course there was nothing for it but the police station � oh � papa did not have him cried you both seem very much moved ladies the young villain is i believe not worth your pity � no he was not actually though within an inch of it because i who wanted to see how matters of this sort are conducted for my book you know went along with him and made out by the way that it was not a case of but only of evidence this of course made all the difference so i took the responsibility on myself of staying the policeman s hand while i returned to m to find if it were the case and if so to for a of sentence your father had it seemed to me been a little too hasty � he suspected that the impression of his private key had been taken in wax and that during his short absence the lock of his desk had been with and papers within it examined though not removed it had very likely been done it is just n and like you saving the ladies but there was no proof of it whatever therefore i as an englishman and a lover of fair play begged off and he came in for only a i half repented of doing so too the next minute for the young rascal would by no means beg pardon and promise never to do so any � but turned dead sulky as i think can do more to the purpose than any others and 