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And so it was arranged that they should go, and Jack staid on and on,
and read aloud to Bessie, and told her of his travels in the East, and
in Australia, and then, he scarcely knew how or why, he spoke of the old
Trevellian home in the north of England, near the border. Trevellian
Castle it was called, he said, and it had been in the family for years.
"I have two cousins there," he said, "or rather second cousins, Dick and
Harry, and I like them both so much, especially Hal, who is six feet
three inches high, and well proportioned. Quite a giant, in fact. Then
there is a young girl, Florence Meredith, Flossie we call her, she is so
like a playful kitten. She is not a cousin, at least to me, though she
calls me that. She is a distant relative of Sir Paul's wife, the mother
of Dick and Hal, and was adopted by her when a baby, Flossie is lovely,
and you remind me of her, except that she is much younger. She will make
a lovely woman, and somebody's heart will ache on her account one of
these days.


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