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Lady Charlotte settled herself comfortably on the sofa, and Rose, seeing that there was no chance of escaping her tormentor, felt her spirits rise to an encounter. 'Really Lady Charlotte and she looked down, and then up, with a feigned bashfulness 'I I play a little. 'Humph! said her questioner again, rather disconcerted by the obvious missishness of the answer. 'You do, do you?
She hated the missishness of young ladies, and had resolved that when he asked her a plain question she would give him a plain answer. It was true that the question had not been asked as yet; but why should she have left him in doubt as to her kindly feeling? "It shall be but for this one day," she said to herself as she sat alone in her room.
As usual, the personages who head the dramatis personæ are not the best. Bertram, though less of a nincompoop than Waverley, is not very much; Lucy is a less lively ange de candeur than Rose, and nothing else; and Julia's genteel-comedy missishness does not do much more than pair off with Flora's tragedy-queen air.
Lady Charlotte settled herself comfortably on the sofa, and Rose, seeing that there was no chance of escaping her tormentor, felt her spirits rise to an encounter. 'Really Lady Charlotte and she looked down, and then up, with a feigned bashfulness 'I I play a little. 'Humph! said her questioner again, rather disconcerted by the obvious missishness of the answer. 'You do, do you?
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