When she now came home to them wet through, and introduced to them a Wet stranger, who was also one of the handsomest young men they had ever seen, very little impression was produced on them, and they Were neither excited nor interested. She had gone out and she had come in, she had been caught in the rain, and she had lost her way. Somebody had, naturally enough, turned up to help her, and she had brought that somebody home with her, and as that. Somebody was evidently quite a proper person for them to associate With, and very much inclined to associate with them, there was no harm done, and everything was as pleasant as everything ought always to be.
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Born in London in 1822, Elizabeth Anna Hart was the daughter of a clergyman, critic and poet. Her aunt was Lewis Carroll's grandmother. She married an officer in the Indian Army, but had no children. She is perhaps best remembered for the children's story, The Runaway (1872), and for the adult novel Mrs Jerningham's Journal. She died in 1890.