CHAPTER XIV.

"My beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by, With thy proudly arch'd and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye--

"Thus, thus I leap upon thy back, and scour the distant plains: Away! who overtakes me now, shall claim thee for his pains."

_The Arab to his Steed_.

Bulstrode seemed happy to meet me, complaining that I had quite forgotten the satisfaction with which all New York, agreeably to his account of the matter, had received me the past spring. Of course, I thanked him for his civility; and we soon became as good friends as formerly. In a minute or two, Mary Wallace joined us, and we all repaired to the breakfast-table, where we were soon joined by Dirck, who had been detained by some affairs of his own.

Herman Mordaunt and Bulstrode had the conversation principally to themselves for the first few minutes. Mary Wallace was habitually silent; but Anneke, without being loquacious, was sufficiently disposed to converse. This morning, however, she said little beyond what the civilities of the table required from the mistress of the house, and that little in as few words as possible. Once or twice I could not help remarking that her hand remained on the handle of a richly-chased tea-pot, after that hand had performed its office; and that her sweet, deep blue eye was fixed on vacancy, or on some object before her with a vacant regard, in the manner of one that thought intensely. Each time as she recovered from these little _reveries_, a slight flush appeared on her face, and she seemed anxious to conceal the involuntary abstraction. This absence of mind continued until Bulstrode, who had been talking with our host on the subject of the movements of the army, suddenly directed his discourse to me.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Who was excited?
2. To see someone?
3. Did they become close again?
4. Who arrives?
5. How long after?
6. What did they do?
7. Then who showed up?
8. Was he on time?
9. Who talked most of the time at first?
10. Anybody else?
11. Was somebody usually quiet?
12. Who?
13. Was somebody else being quiet?
14. Was she usually?
15. Was she behaving strangely?
16. In what way?
17. Anything else?
18. Did she recover?
19. What happened then?
20. Who addresses him then?
1. Bulstrode
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Mary Wallace
5. a minute or two
6. repaired to the breakfast-table
7. Dirck
8. No
9. Herman Mordaunt
10. Bulstrode
11. Yes
12. Mary Wallace was
13. Yes
14. No
15. Yes
16. her hand remained on the handle
17. her eye was fixed on vacancy
18. Yes
19. a slight flush appeared on her face
20. Bulstrode does