"Oh, but how was it? You loved him, anyway, before you were allowed to speak?" Kitty felt a peculiar pleasure in being able now to talk to her mother on equal terms about those questions of such paramount interest in a woman's life.

"Of course I did; he had come to stay with us in the country.

" "But how was it settled between you, mamma?" "You imagine, I dare say, that you invented something quite new? It's always just the same: it was settled by the eyes, by smiles..." "How nicely you said that, mamma! It's just by the eyes, by smiles that it's done," Dolly assented.