Once she broke in with a question:-- "What kind of a person is Miss Bannister ?" she asked.

Miss Panney gave a short laugh.
"Oh, she is a charming person," she answered, "pretty, good-humored, well educated, excellent taste in dress and almost everything, and very lively and pleasant to talk to.

I am very fond of her." "I am afraid," said Miriam, "that she is too old and too fine for me," and turning to a photograph album she began to study the family portraits.
"Your sister's ideas are rather girlish as yet," said Miss Panney, "but housekeeping at Cobhurst will change all that;" and then she went on with her remarks concerning the Haverley and Butterwood families, a subject upon which Ralph was not nearly so well informed as she was.
When the brother and sister had driven away, Miss Panney reflected that the visit had given her two pieces of information.

One was that the Haverley girl was a good deal younger than she had thought her, and the other was that Mrs.Tolbridge was really trying to get a new cook.

The first point she did not consider with satisfaction.
"It is a pity," she thought, "that Dora and his sister are not likely to be friends.