'Look at me, Nora, ' he said softly; and neither of them thought it strange that he should use her Christian name. She turned and looked at him, and what he read in her eyes robbed him for the moment of speech. Then he asked, in a whisper: 'Are you glad I came? Did you expect me?'Annie M.P. Smithson was the most successful of all Irish romantic novelists and all of her books were bestsellers. Nora Connor: A Romance of Yesterday is reprinted here for the benefit of the new generations who did not have the opportunity to read it.Other Annie M.P. Smithson books which have been reprinted include: The Walk of a Queen, Her Irish Heritage, The Marriage of Nurse Harding, The Weldons of Tibradden, and Paid in Full.