Uncle Christopher, won't you teach Grace Crawley?
She never saw a Pope Joan board in her life before." "Come here, my dear, and sit next to me.

Dear, dear, dear; fancy Henry Grantly having a little girl.

What a handsome lad he was.

And it seems only yesterday." If it was so that Lily had said a word to her uncle about Grace and the major, the old squire had become on a sudden very sly.

Be that as it may, Grace Crawley thought that he was a pleasant old man; and though, while talking to him about Edith, she persisted in not learning to play Pope Joan, so that he could not contrive that she should win, nevertheless the squire took to her very kindly, and told her to come up with Lily and see him sometimes while she was staying at the Small House.