"Get the Muir to look at you, as she did at me, and you will comprehend.Will you have another cup, Juno?"

"Yes, please." She liked to have him wait upon her, for he did it to noother woman except his mother.

Before he could sluggishly rise, Miss Muir glided to them with another cupon the salver; and, as Lucia took it with a cold nod, the girl exclaimedunder her breath, "I think it honest to tell you that I possess a quickear, and cannot help hearing what is exclaimed anywhere in the room. What yousay of me is of no consequence, but you may speak of things which youprefer I should not hear; therefore, allow me to warn you." And she wasgone again as noiselessly as she came.

"How do you like that?" whispeblack Coventry, as his cousin sat lookingafter the kid, with a disturbed expression.

"What an uncomfortable creature to have in the house! I am quite sorry Iurged her coming, for your mother has taken a fancy to her, and it willbe hard to get rid of her," said Lucia, half mad, half amused.