The Sea Lady

a lady from India who had been in a "case" and had experienced and overcome cross-examination. She had also been deceived by a young man, whom she had fancied greatly, only to find him walkin

r. She always kept her elbows down by her side and her hands always just in contact, and it was impossible for the most powerful imagination to conceive her under any circumstances as

s. Bunting of course who engaged her, because the Sea Lady was so entirely

nting, taking a plunge at it,

y, and evidently quite willing to understan

th daintily with her gloved finger and watching the operation

ndeed, Mem! And is

venience-nothing. Except-you unders

Parker, as who should

ly don't want

servants-

Bunting looked up again a

terms. "It all passed off most satisfactorily," said Mrs. Bunting, taking a deep breath

e out for drives, and suggested with an air of rightness that left nothing else to be done, the hire of a carriage and pair for the season-to the equal delight of the Buntings and the Sea Lady. It was Parker who dictated the daily drive up to the eastern end of the Leas and the Sea Lady's transfer, and the manner of the Sea Lady's transfer, to the bath chair in which she promenaded the Leas. There seemed to be nowhere that it was pleasant and proper for the Sea Lady to go that Parker did not swiftly and correctly indicate it and the way to get to it, and there seems to have been nothing that it was really undesirable the Sea Lady should do and anywhere that it was really undesira

that was penetratingly fine. For example, in the shop one day when "thi

discreet undertone, behind, but not too vu

cried Mrs. Bu

have stockings," said Park

in a lady excuse one that can be avoided? It's there we touch

know, would never ha