With his sister as a suggesting subject, she talked about herself; she told him how she, too, had lost her parents early in life, and had been obliged to be a very independent girl, for her stepmother, although just as good as she could be, was not a person on whom she could rely very much.

As for her brother, the dearest man on earth, she had always felt that she was more capable of taking care of him, at least in all matters in home life, than he of her.
"But I have been very happy," she went on to say, "for I am so fond of country life, and everything that belongs to it, that the more I have to do with it, the better I like it, and I really begrudge the time that I spend in the city.

You do not know with what pleasure I look forward to helping Miriam get breakfast to-morrow morning.

I consider it a positive lark.

By the way, Mr.Haverley, do you like rolled omelets ?" Ralph declared that he liked everything that was good, and had no doubt that rolled omelets were delicious.
"Then I shall make some," said Dora, "for I know how to do it.