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Cytherea was an acquisition, and the greeting was hearty

'Good afternoon! O yes--Miss Graye, frolad you have called! Coh to pay irlishly

Adelaide, when in the coer woe froe at coain' 'Yes, do at any time; not only on this errand But youto coht Now you le person? People said it was odd for a young woman like me to keep on a house; but what did I care? If you knew the pleasure of locking up your own door, with the sensation that you reigned supre called odd Mr Springrove attends toattends to robbers, and whenever there is a snake or toad to kill, Jane does it' 'How nice! It is better than living in a town' 'Far better A town ly, to Cytherea's mind, that Edward had used those very words to herself one evening at Budmouth

Miss Hinton opened an interior door and led her visitor into a s a view of the country for miles

The missionary business was soon settled; but the chat continued

'How lonely it ht!' said Cytherea 'Aren't you afraid?' 'At first I was, slightly But I got used to the solitude And you know a sort of commonsense will creep even into tiht, "If I were anybody but a harhost to appear to me, I should think that every sound I hear was a spirit" But you hly interested in seeing

'I say you _must_ do this, and you _must_ do that, as if you were a child,' reed friend ofso constantly in nobody's society but ht' Cytherea called the friend 'she' by a rule of ladylike practice; for a woman's 'friend' is delicately assumed by another friend to be of their own sex in the absence of knowledge to the contrary; just as cats are called she's until they prove themselves he's