"There are too many of them to make much of, as we do of our Meta." "I suppose so; but I did not know gentlewomen lived in such a way," said Meta.

"There were nice things about, a beautiful inlaid work-box of Flora's, and a rosewood desk, and plenty of books, and a Greek book and dictionary were spread open.

I asked Flora if they were hers, and she laughed and said no; and that Ethel would be much discomposed that I had see them.

Ethel keeps up with her brother Norman--only fancy! and he at the head of the school.

How clever she must be!" "But, my dear, were you standing in your wet things all this time!" "No; I was trying on their frocks, but they trailed on the ground upon me, so she asked if I would come and sit by the nursery fire till my habit was dry; and there was a dear little good-humoured baby, so fair and pretty.