Out of her sphere - University Library

OUT OF IIER SPHEUE.
almost displeased when he asked after Milly,
and enquu-e in such freezing accents after
his lordship ?
He had never seen the room in which he
now was but on one or two state occasions,
when lights and flowers and merry people
made its splendours bearable. He had al-
ways been shown direct into the apartment
which Milly and her mother usually occu-
pied, where there were so many things to
suggest conversation and fill up blanks if a
pause occurred ;
but what was there here ?
The very blinds were drawn down so that
he could see nothing of the outside world,
and the spotless brown-holland covers, if
they concealed the gorgeousness of the satin
draperies, were so suggestive of hidden
pomps that he felt more over-awed than if
the bravery they concealed had been pal-
pable to the eye.
If he could only have been in that pretty
morning room, where there was nothing ta