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CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.

BLANCHE.

MRS. INCHBARE was the first person who acted in the emergency. She called for lights; and sternly rebuked the house-maid, who brought them, for not having closed the house door. "Ye feckless ne'er-do-weel!" cried the landlady; "the wind's blawn the candles oot."

The woman declared (with perfect truth) that the door had been closed. An awkward dispute might have ensued if Blanche had not diverted Mrs. Inchbare's attention to herself. The appearance of the lights disclosed her, wet through with her arms round Anne's neck. Mrs. Inchbare digressed at once to the pressing question of changing the young lady's clothes, and gave Anne the opportunity of looking round her, unobserved. Arnold had made his escape before the candles had been brought in.

In the mean time Blanche's attention was absorbed in her own dripping skirts.

"Good gracious! I'm absolutely distilling rain from every part of me. And I'm making you, Anne, as wet as I am! Lend me some dry things. You can't? Mrs. Inchbare, what does your experience suggest? Which had I better do? Go to bed while my clothes are being dried? or borrow from your wardrobe--though you _are_ a head and shoulders taller than I am?"

Mrs. Inchbare instantly bustled out to fetch the choicest garments that her wardrobe could produce. The moment the door had closed on her Blanche looked round the room in her turn.

The rights of affection having been already asserted, the claims of curiosity naturally pressed for satisfaction next.

1. Who has drenched skirts?
2. Who was the first to act?
3. What did she do first?
4. What were they arguing about?
5. Who had their arms around Anne's neck?
6. What did Mrs. Inchbare want to handle?
7. What did Anne do at that moment?
8. What was she trying to ascertain?
9. And what did?
10. Did anybody see him?
11. What did Mrs. Inchbare leave to do?
12. Whose were they?
13. Who looked around after she left?
14. Were Blanche and Mrs. Inchbare the same size?
15. Who was taller?
16. What did Mrs. Inchbare blame for the candles going out?
17. Who did she think did not close the door?
1. Blanche
2. Mrs. Inchbare
3. Called for lights
4. Whether the door was closed.
5. Blanche
6. The issue of the lady's clothes.
7. Look around.
8. What happened to Arnold.
9. He had escaped.
10. No
11. Get some clothes.
12. Her own
13. Blanche
14. No
15. Mrs. Inchbare
16. The wind
17. The house-maid