She is not a bit shy, will go to anybody, but, they say, she likes no one so well as her brother Norman." "So you had a regular treat of baby-nursing." "That I had; I could not part with her, the darling.

Flora thought we might take her down, and I liked playing with her in the drawing-room and talking to Miss May, till the fly came to take us home.

I wanted to have seen Ethel; but, only think, papa has asked Dr.May to bring Flora some day; how I hope he will!" Little Meta having told her story, and received plenty of sympathy, proceeded to dress, and, while her maid braided her hair, a musing fit fell upon her.

"I have seen something of life to-day," thought she.

"I had thought of the great difference between us and the poor, but I did not know ladies lived in such different ways.