It was quite painful to see that the unfortunate girl had been so neglected.

Lady Vargrave must be a very strange person.

He inquired compassionately whether she was allowed any pocket money; and finding, to his relief, that in that respect Miss Cameron was munificently supplied, he suggested that a proper abigail should be immediately engaged; that proper orders to Madame Devy should be immediately transmitted to London, with one of Evelyn's dresses, as a pattern for nothing but length and breadth.

He almost stamped with vexation when he heard that Evelyn had been placed in one of the neat little rooms generally appropriated to young lady visitors.
"She is quite contented, my dear Mr.Merton; she is so simple; she has not been brought up in the style you think for." "Mrs.Merton," said the rector, with great solemnity, "Miss Cameron may know no better now; but what will she think of us hereafter?
It is my maxim to recollect what people will be, and show them that respect which may leave pleasing impressions when they have it in their power to show us civility in return." With many apologies, which quite overwhelmed poor Evelyn, she was transferred from the little chamber, with its French bed and bamboo-coloured washhand-stand, to an apartment with a buhl wardrobe and a four-post bed with green silk curtains, usually appropriated to the regular Christmas visitant, the Dowager Countess of Chipperton.

A pretty morning room communicated with the sleeping apartment, and thence a private staircase conducted into the gardens.