"Daily."

     "He would approve of your plans, Jane? I know they would be clever, for you are a talented creature!"

     "He approved of them--yes."

     "He would discover many things in you he could not have expected to find? Some of your accomplishments are not ordinary."

     "I don't know about that."

     "You had a little cottage near the school, you say: did he ever come there to see you?"

     "Now and then?"

     "Of an evening?"

     "Once or twice."

     A pause.

     "How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?"

     "Five months."

     "Did Rivers spend much time with the ladies of his family?"