Miss Stanbury had declared more than once that it would do, but had not succeeded in showing in what the success consisted.

When she was told that the two ladies were gone, she desired that Dorothy might be sent to her, and immediately began to make anxious inquiries.
"Well, my dear, and what do they think of it ?" "I don't know, aunt, that they think very much." "And what do they say about it ?" "They didn't say very much, aunt.

I was very glad to see mamma and Priscilla.

Perhaps I ought to tell you that mamma gave me back the money I sent her." "What did she do that for ?" asked Miss Stanbury very sharply.
"Because she says that Hugh sends her now what she wants." Miss Stanbury, when she heard this, looked very sour.

"I thought it best to tell you, you know." "It will never come to any good, got in that way,--never." "But, Aunt Stanbury, isn't it good of him to send it ?" "I don't know.