Oh, if papa would come,--or mamma! Dear, dear mamma! You don't suppose but what I love you all!' 'I am sure you do.' 'But not from papa or mamma even will I hear a word against him.

Would Fanny,'-- Fanny was the barrister's wife--'let her people come and say things behind your back ?' 'I hope not.' 'Then, believe that I can be as stout as Fanny.

But we need not quarrel.
You will come and see baby, and have some lunch.

I am afraid they will not be here till three or four, but they will be so glad to see you if you will wait.' He would not wait, of course; but he allowed himself to be taken away to see baby, and did eat his lunch.

Then he brought forward the purport of his mission.