Excerpt from At the Moorings Betty is a regular little besom, ' Observed Kate delightedly. 'as I am Scotch, I glory in that word. Bless her little heart, she is as wilful and as sweet as a May breeze.' Your May breeze had a touch of March sharpness in it, ' returned Mr. Fraser. She was a bit too hard on a fellow, don't you know. A man with a coat like that can't expect many introductions. I made up my mind, Miss Allen, that he was a pianist out of employment; but no one has asked him to play, so perhaps he is only a piano-tuner'; for Archie Fraser was a trifle cross at Betty's abrupt leave-taking. Kate Allen laughed merrily. Oh, if Betty could only hear you say that But do look at them now; they are talking as happily as possible. Betty is nodding her head and chattering like a magpie, and her poor thing is actually smiling. Don't you wish we were near enough to hear their conversation?' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.