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'Your grandfather is very anxious about you'

'Not a bit of it, Mr Montague Grandfather knows very here I aoing Why should the Squire bother himself about gles, that you are trusting yourself to a young man who is not trustworthy'

'I can ue'

'Tell me this Have you seen Sir Felix Carbury since you've been in town?' Ruby, whose blushes came very easily, now flushed up to her forehead 'You ood to you What can come of an intimacy between you and such a one as he?'

'I don't see why I shouldn't have ue, as well as you Howsoed'

'But I ed to you one bit,' said Ruby, shutting the door

Paul as he walked away could not help thinking of the justice of Ruby's reproach to him What business had he to take upon hiard to an affair of love;--he, who had engaged hi before had for the first tiard to Mrs Hurtle he had got a reprieve, as he thought, for two days;--but it did not make his he kneould have been better for him to have had the interview over But, at any rate, he could now think of Hetta Carbury, and the words he had spoken to her Had he heard that declaration which she had made to her otten Mrs Hurtle