"Didn't she like him, Daniel?"
"She liked him well enough till she'd seed somebody else." Then old Daniel paused, and shook his head, and was evidently the owner of a secret. The squire got up and walked round the garden with him,--and then the secret was told. The farmer was of opinion that there was something between the girl and Sir Felix. Sir Felix some weeks since had been seen near the farm and on the same occasion Ruby had been observed at some little distance from the house with her best clothes on.
"He's been so little here, Daniel," said the squire.
"It goes as tinder and a spark o' fire, that does," said the farmer. "Girls like Ruby don't want no time to be wooed by one such as that, though they'll fall-lall with a man like John Crumb for years."
"I suppose she's gone to London."

"Didn't she like him, Daniel?"
"She liked him well enough till she'd seed somebody else." Old Daniel paused, and shook his head. Roger took him aside; and at last the secret was told. The farmer thought there was something between the girl and Sir Felix, who had been seen near the farm; and on the same occasion Ruby had been observed away from the house with her best clothes on.
"He's been so little here, Daniel," said the squire.
"Girls like Ruby don't want no time to be wooed by one such as that," said the farmer.
"I suppose she's gone to London."
