While we were waiting for the opening of the gate, the tutor walked on toward the house with Benny.

As we passed them, Benny called out, "Stop, Uncle Kilian, stop, and take me in." Benny never was denied anything, so we stopped and Mr.Langenau lifted him up in front of us.

He bowed without speaking, and Benny was the orator of the occasion.
"You looked as if you were having such a nice time, I thought I'd like to come." "Well, we were," said Kilian, with a laugh, and then we drove on rapidly.
At the tea-table Mr.Langenau said to Sophie as he rose to go away: "Mrs.Hollenbeck, if there is any service I can render you this evening at the piano, I shall be very glad if you will let me know." Mrs.Hollenbeck thanked him with cordiality, but told him of the provision that had been made.
"But you will dance, Mr.Langenau," cried Mary Leighton, "we need dancing-men terribly, you know.

Promise me you'll dance." "Oh," said Charlotte Benson, "he has promised me." Mr.Langenau bowed low; he got wonderfully through these awkward situations.

As he left the room Kilian said in a tone loud enough for us, but not for him, to hear, "The Lowders have a nice young gardener; hadn't we better send to see if he can't come this evening ?" "Kilian, that's going a little too far," said Richard in a displeased manner; "as long as the boys' tutor conducts himself like a gentleman, he deserves to be treated like a gentleman." "Ah, Paterfamilias, thank you.