Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. You must allow mo to get you something to eat first, Mrs. Pasmer, said the elder Mavering. Oh no, thank you, Mrs. Pasmer began. But she changed her mind and said, Or, yes, I will, Mr, Mavering: a very little salad, please. She had really forgotten her hunger, as a woman will in the presence of any social interest, but she suddenly thought his going would give her a chance for two words with her daughter, and so she sent him. As he creaked heavily across the smooth floor of the nave, Alice, she whispered, I don't know exactly what I 've done. Who introduced this young Mr. Mavering to you 1 Mr. Munt. Mr. Muni Yes; he came for me; he said you sent him. He introduced Mr. Mavering, and he was very polite. Mr. Mavering said we ought to go up into the gallery and see how it looked; and Mr. Munt said he 'd been up, and Mr. Mavering promised to bring me back to him, but he was not there when we got back. Mr. Mavering got me some icecream first, and then he found you for me. Really, said Mrs. Pasmer to herself, tho combat thickens To her daughter she said, He 's very handsome. He laughs too much, said the daughter. Her mother recognised her uncandour with a glance. But he waltzes well, added the girl. Waltzes? echoed the mother. Didyouica/fe with him, Alice ? Everybody else was dancing. He asked mo for a turn or two, and of course I did it. What difference ? Oh, none?none. Only?I didn't see you. Perhaps you weren't looking. Yes, I was looking all the time. What do you mean, mamma 1 Well, said Mrs. Pasmer, in a final despair, we don't know anything about them. We're the only people hero who don't, then, said her daughter. The ladies were bowing right and left to him all the ...