"Of course we were tired and cross when we got out of the train.

People always are; aren't they ?" "Perhaps ladies are." "We were.

But all that about the carriages, Mr.Morton, wasn't my doing.

Mamma had been talking to me so much that I didn't know whether I was on my head or my heels.

It was very good of you to come and meet us, and I ought to have been more gracious." In this way she made her peace, and as she was quite in earnest,--doing a portion of the hard work of her life,--she continued to smile as sweetly as she could.