too she did not believe they had yet it even in private the morrow came the plan for the evening continued and s consideration of it did not become less agitated she worked very diligently under aunt s directions but her diligence and her silence concealed a very absent anxious mind and about noon she made her escape with her work to the east room that she might have no concern in another and as she deemed it most unnecessary of the act which henry was just proposing desirous at once of having her time to herself and of avoiding the sight of ur a as e passed through tbe hall park jf the two ladies walking up from the made no ill her wish of retreat and she worked and meditated in the east room undisturbed for a quarter of an hour when a gentle tap at the door was followed by the entrance of miss i am i right yes this is the east room my dear miss price i beg your pardon but i have made my way to you on purpose to entreat your help quite surprised endeavoured to show herself mis of the room by her and looked at the bright bars of her empty grate with concern thank you � i am quite warm very warm allow me to stay here a little while and do have the goodness to hear me my third act i have brought my book and if you would but it with me i should be so obliged i came here to day intending to it with � by ourselves � against the evening but he is not in the way and if he were i do not think i could go through it with am till i have hardened myself a little for really there is a speech or two you will be so good won t you was most civil in her assurances though she could not give them in a very steady voice have you ever happened to look at the part i mean continued miss opening her book o it is t did not think much of it at first � but upon my word there look at that speech and that and that how am i ever to look him in the face and say such things could you do it but then he is your cousin which makes all the difference you must it with me that i may fancy you him and get on by degrees you have a look of his have i � i will do my best with the greatest readiness � but i must read the part for i can say very little of it of it i suppose you are to ave the book of course now for it we must have two chairs at hand for you to bring forward to the front of the stage there � very good school room chairs not made for a theatre i dare say much more fitted for little girls to sit and kick their feet against when they are learning a lesson what would your and your uncle say to see them used for such a lot purpose could sir look in upon ua just bow would himself for all over the is in tiie i i heard bim m i came up stairs and the theatre is engaged of course by these and if are not perfect i he surprised by the by i looked i upon them one of the times when tbey mr was with me little queer so i turned it ob ing to him we shall have so maternal in in her and co done of she began i which the to i to t id it happened to be exactly at ere trying not to embrace and i he began to look a ts well as i could by excellent there is maternal in her manner so completely i� o and countenance was not that well he brightened up directly now for my nd pan ny joined in with all the modest feeling of representing was so strongly but with looks and voice so truly feminine � ery good picture of a man with such an r miss had courage enough and half the scene when a tap at the door of the next mo they bad got i brought a pause and the meat suspended it all surprise a and pleasure appeared in each of the three on this unexpected meeting and as war come on the very business that had brought miss consciousness and pleasure were likely to be more than momentary in l u m he too bad his book and was seeking to ask her to with him and help him to prepare for the evening without knowing miss to bo in the and great was the joy and animation of being thus thrown together � comparing schemes � and in praise of s kind offices she could not equal them in their warmth her sank under the glow of and she felt herself becoming too nearly nothing to both to any comfort in having been sought by either they must now together proposed urged entreated it� till the lady not very unwilling at first could refuse no longer � and wai only to prompt observe them she was invested man field indeed with the office of judge and critic and earnestly desired to exercise it and tell them all their faults but from doing feeling within her shrank she could not would not dared not attempt it had she been otherwise qualified for criticism her conscience must have restrained her from venturing at she believed herself to feel too much of it in the for honesty or safety in particulars to prompt them must be enough for her and it was sometimes more than enough for she could not always pay attention to the book in watching 