It is now near one." "Am I to understand----" interposed Miss Honeyman.
"Oh! I have no doubt we shall understand each other, ma'am," cried Lady Anne Newcome (whose noble presence the acute reader has no doubt ere this divined and saluted).

"Doctor Goodenough has given me a most satisfactory account of you--more satisfactory perhaps than--than you are aware of." Perhaps Lady Anne's sentence was not going to end in a very satisfactory way for Miss Honeyman; but, awed by a peculiar look of resolution in the little lady, her lodger of an hour paused in whatever offensive remark she might have been about to make.

"It is as well that I at last have the pleasure of seeing you, that I may state what I want, and that we may, as you say, understand each other.

Breakfast and tea, if you please, will be served in the same manner as dinner.

And you will have the kindness to order fresh milk every morning for my little boy--ass's milk--Doctor Goodenough has ordered ass's milk.