dear asked not very bright answered bravely a cup of tea will do me good it s all right � oh don t take any notice of me i m not going to faint or anything of that kind � j felt sick coming into those this warm light room a little after being np stairs i m all right she sat down and took the cup of tea which he handed to her but refused to eat anything with it and presently as she drank the hot she came more to her own senses and was able to look at her sister s admirer with differently interested eyes to those with which she had looked at him before she saw then how easily she might have been mistaken he was not unlike her dick for he was tall and fair with a determined turn of the chin and a gracious ease of manner which undoubtedly had helped to make him one of the most popular men in dear me said mrs to i wonder where your sister and lord are oh don t disturb them mrs said captain good well that s very pretty at a dance said the mother with an amused laugh but when it is afternoon tea and hot i don t tb e think that it s kind to let people idle about a damp or some equally uncomfortable or place do you oh i don t know he returned � i think if i was happy i d rather be left at the bottom of a well than be brought up to all the tea and in the world but i don t know that they are happy said mrs smiling i hear their voices said they are there was a faint light glimmering in the which lay between the drawing room and the morning room opened the door and came in followed by a tall fair haired man oh fancy your not letting us know that tea was ready � how detestable of you she said speaking to them generally lord let me introduce you to my much beloved sister m e chapter xi the pain of an old wound set thy heart aright and constantly endure for a moment there was profound silence then taught in the school of patience to endure looked up into the eyes of the only man that she had ever loved and held out her hand to him i am very pleased to meet you she said in an ice cold voice and ji came from between his teeth but turned abruptly away and went back to the tea table where she sat down by who was there and began to turn her idly round and round in her cup who had seen nothing gathered nothing of the tragedy which had taken place between these moan two sat down on a not far from the table and made a gesture to that he should come and sit beside her i do think it was too bad of you not to let us know that tea was ready she went on in a gay laughing voice don t you think so lord oh i do he said promptly trying hard to speak in a natural voice frank old fellow i think it was real mean of you yes dick always pitch into the younger son that s the worst of being a younger son captain went on to the room in general he s a sort of everlasting to his swell of an elder brother and then knew why this lover of s had deceived her for a moment into thinking that he was dick for he and dick were brothers my dear chap said lord as he fetched s cup of tea trying to catch a glance of s eyes the while you ve had the best of it all along i ve got the title and tm s and the money put in captain quietly yes yes the money but not everything then he took his own cup of tea seeing that resolutely avoided looking at him and sat down on the beside handsome by the by mrs he said after a minute or so changing his tone to one of ordinary gravity my brother and i secured seats at the theatre to night it is almost the end of the and i assure you it s really won t you give us the pleasure of going there with us i shall be charmed said mrs quite charmed i was very lucky to get eight seats and i have asked two other men � and sir john � won t you dine with me early at the hotel before we go to the theatre oh it would be most pleasant said mrs mc graciously but do you mean all of us he looked round with an odd little smile i why yes he said which of you could leave out it seemed like an eternity to before they themselves away but in reality it was not very long for captain s dog cart came round to the door in less than half an hour after he and she had met for the first time how hard he tried to get just one word alone with but it was impossible she never raised her eyes to his she answered his remarks and questions only in and the little hand that she gave him when he went away � although as he said by way of excuse it was but au instead of good bye � might have been the hand of a dead girl is that said he to his brother as they drove along the dusky lanes is that the sister you told me about frank � the one that was at school in yes and isn t she pretty pretty i shouldn t have thought of using the term pretty to her � no i 