-morrow, but still he watched, with
an eye to all the changes of colour. Perhaps nature had not hitherto
called him with a very strong voice; but there came a great many scraps
of poetry floating in his head which might have given an interest to
sunsets even before Lady Markland. There was something about that very
golden greenness which was before his eyes, "beginning to fade in the
light he loves on a bed of daffodil sky." He identified that and all the
rims of colours that marked the shining horizon. Perhaps she would ask
him if he had remarked; and he would be able to reply.

"Books?" cried Minnie--"are all those books? Don't you know we have a
great many books already, more than we have shelves for? The library is
quite full, and even the little bookcase in the drawing-room. You should
get rid of some of the old ones if you bring in so many new."

"And who did you see in town, Theo?" said his mother. He had no club,
being so young and so little accustomed to London; but yet a young man
brought up as he had been can scarcely fail to have many friends.

"Most people seem to have gone away," he said. "I saw nobody. Yes, there
were people riding in the Row, and people walking too, I suppose, but
nobody I knew."

"And did you go up all that way only to buy books? You might have
written to the bookseller for them, and saved your fare."

Theo made his sister no reply, but when Chatty asked, rather shyly, if
he had seen much of Mr. Cavendish, answered warmly that Cavendish was a
very good fellow; that he took the greatest interest in his friends'
concerns, and was always ready to do anything he could for you. "I had
no idea what a man he was," he said, with fervour. Mrs. Warrender looked
up at this with a little anxiety, for according to the ordinary rules
which govern the reasoning of women she was led from it to the deduction,
not immediately visible to the unconcerned spectator, that her son had
got into some scrape, and had found it necessary to have recourse to his
friend's advice. Theo in a scrape! It seemed impossible: but yet there
are few women who are not prepared for something happening of this
character even to the best of men.

"I hope," she said, "that he is a prudent adviser, Theo; but he is still
quite a young man."

"Not so young; he must be six or seven and twenty," said the young man;
and then he paused, remembering that this was the perfect age,--the age
which she had attained, which he had descr