Henrietta told her mother that morning, immediately on her return. "Mamma, Mr. Paul Montague has been here."
"He always comes here when I am away," said Lady Carbury.
"That has been an accident. He could not have known that you were going to Messrs. Leadham and Loiter's."
"I'm not so sure of that, Hetta."
"Then, mamma, you must have told him yourself, and I don't think you knew till just before you were going. But, mamma, what does it matter? He has been here, and I have told him--"
"You have not accepted him?"

Henrietta told her mother that morning. "Mamma, Mr. Paul Montague has been here, and I have told him-"
"You have not accepted him?"
