e out; rising ily, I stood face to face  was Mr. Rocer.

    “how do you do?” he asked.

    “I am very well, sir.”

    “ come and speak to me in the room?”

    I t I migorted tion on  it: but I  take t freedom. I answered—

    “I did not urb you, as you seemed engaged, sir.”

    “ have you been doing during my absence?”

    “Noticular; teaching Adèle as usual.”

    “And getting a good deal paler t first sig is tter?”

    “Not all, sir.”

    “Did you take any cold t night you half drowned me?”

    “Not s.”

    “Return to ting too early.”

    “I am tired, sir.”

    me for a minute.

    “And a little depressed,”  about? tell me.”

    “Not depressed.”

    “But I affirm t you are: so muc a feears to your eyes—indeed, to time, and  in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I o-nig understand t so long as my visitors stay, I expect you to appear in t is my  it. No ly left me.