Sighing, she began to arrange the contents of the trays in some kind of method.

Incompetent and careless mother! Hilda wondered how the old thing managed to conduct her life from day to day with even a semblance of the decency of order.

It did not occur to her that for twenty-five years before she was born, and for a long time afterwards, Mrs.Lessways had contrived to struggle along through the world, without her daughter's aid, to the general satisfaction of herself and some others.

At length, ferreting on the highest shelf but one, she had the deep, proud satisfaction of the philosopher who has correctly deduced consequences from character.

Underneath a Paisley shawl she discovered a lost treasure of clean handkerchiefs.