One can always have some quiet by getting away into the cloister." "Bless you, my boy! while you go on in this way, I have not much fear but that you'll know how to manage." Norman's rapid progress affected another of the household in an unexpected way.
"Margaret, my dear, I wish to speak to you," said Miss Winter, reappearing when Margaret thought every one was gone out walking.
She would have said, "I am very sorry for it"-- so ominous was the commencement--and her expectations were fulfilled when Miss Winter had solemnly seated herself, and taken out her netting.

"I wished to speak to you about dear Ethel," said the governess; "you know how unwilling I always am to make any complaint, but I cannot be satisfied with her present way of going on." "Indeed," said Margaret.

"I am much grieved to hear this.

I thought she had been taking great pains to improve." "So she was at one time.

I would not by any means wish to deny it, and it is not of her learning that I speak, but of a hurried, careless way of doing everything, and an irritability at being interfered with." Margaret knew how Miss Winter often tried Ethel's temper, and was inclined to take her sister's part.