If Carson is still in business I should like her to make my girl's gowns; but you must please yourself in this matter, as it is quite possible that Carson is a little behind the times.
'I must ask you to present my darling, and to deal with her exactly as if she were a daughter of your own.

I think you know all my views and hopes about her; and I feel that I can trust to your friendship in this my day of need.

The dream of my life has been to launch her myself, and direct her every step in the mazes of town life; but that dream is over.

I have kept age and infirmity at a distance, have even forgotten that the years were going by; and now I find myself an old woman all at once, and my golden dream has vanished.' Lady Kirkbank's reply came by return of post, and happily this gushing epistle had not to be submitted to Mary's eye.
'My dearest Di, 'My heart positively bleeds for you.

What is the matter with your hand, that you talk of being a life-long prisoner to your room?
Pray send for Paget or Erichsen, and have yourself put right at once.