Lady Tintern is much more ambitious for her than I am for Peter." "How you talk, Mary!" said Miss Crewys, indignantly.

"She is hardly twenty years of age, and the most designing monkey that ever lived.
And Peter is a fine young man.

A boy, indeed! I hope if she succeeds in catching him that you will remember I warned you." "I will remember, if anything so fortunate should occur," said Lady Mary, with a faint smile.

"I cannot think of any girl in the world whom I would prefer to Sarah as a daughter." "I, for one, should walk out of this house the day that girl entered it as mistress, let Peter say what he would to prevent me," said Lady Belstone, reddening with indignation.
"I wonder where you would go to ?" said Lady Mary, with some curiosity.
"Of course," she added, hastily, "there is the Dower House." "I am sure it is very generous of you to suggest the Dower House, dear Mary," said Miss Crewys, softening, "since our poor brother, in his unaccountable will, left it entirely to you, and made no mention of his elder sisters; though we do not complain." "It is in accordance with custom that the widow should have the Dower House.

A widow's rights should be respected; but I thought our names would be mentioned," said Lady Belstone, dejectedly.
"Of course he knew," said Lady Mary, in a low voice, "that Peter's house would be always open to us all, as my boy said himself." "Dear boy! he has said it to us too," said the sisters, in a breath.
"I don't say that, in my opinion," said Lady Mary, "it would not be wiser to leave a young married couple to themselves; I have always thought so.