I am told that she is not only a regular town lady, but that she makes a first-rate house-keeper when she is down here in the country." Lawrence replied that he had no doubt that all this was very true.
"I have never seen her," continued the old lady, "for there has not been much communication between the two families of late years, although they used to be intimate enough.

But my nephew and niece have been away a great deal, and old people can't be expected to do much in the way of visiting.

But I have a notion," she said, after gazing a few moments in a reflective way at the corner of the house, "that it would be well now to be a little more sociable again.

My niece has no company here of her own sex, except me, and I think it would do her good to know a young lady like Miss March.

Mr Brandon has asked me to let Annie come there, but I think it would be a great deal better for his niece to visit us.
Mrs Null is the latest comer." Lawrence, speaking much more earnestly than when discussing the locust tree, replied that he thought this would be quite proper.
"I think I may invite her to come here next week," said Mrs Keswick, still meditatively and without apparent regard to the presence of Croft, "probably on Friday, and ask her to spend a week.