"You have quite a lot to do, remember.

A big packet of papers came from Paris this morning.

I must read them over to you." "But your mother, my dear! Your absence will be commented upon.

People will gossip, you know." "There is but one person I care for, dad--yourself," laughed the girl lightly.
"Perhaps you're disappointed over a new frock or something, eh ?" "Not at all.

My frock came from town the day before yesterday.