That made them ask about you, and it ended by her sending you this nosegay." "How very kind everybody is! Well, Ethel, are you come home too ?" "Papa picked me up.

Oh, Margaret, we have found such a nice room, a clean sanded kitchen--" "You never saw such a conservatory--" "And it is to be let to us for fourpence a time--" "The house is full of beautiful things, pictures and statues.

Only think of a real Titian, and a cast of the Apollo!" "Twenty children to begin with, and Richard is going to make some forms." "Mr.Rivers is going to show me all his casts." "Oh, is he?
But only think how lucky we were to find such a nice woman; Mr.Wilmot was so pleased with her." Norman found one story at a time was enough, and relinquished the field, contenting himself with silently helping Margaret to arrange the flowers, holding the basket for her, and pleased with her gestures of admiration.

Ethel went on with her history.

"The first place we thought of would not do at all; the woman said she would not take half-a-crown a week to have a lot of children stabbling about, as she called it; so we went to another house, and there was a very nice woman indeed, Mrs.
Green, with one little boy, whom she wanted to send to school, only it is too far.