Never mind, Peter," said Lady Mary.

She sat up, and lifted her pretty hands to smooth the soft waves of her brown hair.
"So I'm to settle down happily in my Dower House, and take your aunts to live with me ?" "Why, you see," said Peter, "we couldn't very well let the poor old things wander away alone into the world, could we ?" "I think," said Lady Mary, slowly, "that they can take care of themselves.

And it is just possible that they may have foreseen--your change of intentions." "Women can never take care of themselves," said Peter.

"And how can they have foreseen?
I had no idea myself of _this_ happening.

But they would be perfectly happy in the Dower House; it is close by, and I could see them very often.