"This is your first visit here?" he said, looking kindly at the child.
"Oh, yes," said Jasmine. Then feeling that she had a sympathetic
listener, she continued--"It is so beautiful here!"
"Yes," answered her companion; then he added, with a second glance at
the forlorn little figure, "Are you alone, or have you lost your
party?"
Jasmine half laughed.
"I cannot find my party at the present moment," she said; "but I am by
no means alone--my two sisters have come here also to-day for the
first time, and a friend is with us, and a lady has very kindly
brought us here."
"I see," said the stranger. "Well, it is a curious coincidence, but
neither am I alone--I have brought a little lad here to show him the
cathedral--he has gone into the Whispering Gallery, and I am waiting
for him. Perhaps your friends have also gone into the gallery. While
we are both waiting, shall we look round this delightful place? and
may I tell you a little of what I know about it?"
It was in this manner, and apparently quite by accident, that Jasmine
made the acquaintance of Arthur Noel, who turned out to be one of the
best friends the girls were to make in London.
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