” “I am glad that you have a reasonable excuse for not having been to see me,” she said good-humouredly. But a little daughter is one thing and a daughter quite another. No wonder that Trenchard, as he gazed at this fearful being, should have some misgivings cross him. She looked around her. ” “I came here to talk reasonably, Mr. All at once her heart began to patter queerly. What has become of the other?" "Why, surely you don't mean Jack Sheppard?" cried the woollen-draper in surprise. “I don’t care,” said Ann Veronica. Thinking of Mantua, she wandered to the courtyard.