Life in great houses has its advantages and its pleasures, and its ambitions, too; but I am getting on in years, and I am tired of the worry and bustle of large households.

I came to this country to visit my relatives, and to rest and enjoy myself; but I soon found that I could not live without cooking.

You might as well expect Dr.Tolbridge to live without reading." "That is very true, La Fleur," said Miss Panney; "and it seems to me that you are in the very home where you can spend the rest of your days most profitably to others, and most happily to yourself.

And yet I hear that you are considering the possibility of not staying here." "Yes," answered La Fleur, "I am considering that; but it is not because I am dissatisfied with anything here.

It is altogether a different question.