I think she's awfully bored, sometimes, but she keeps it to herself.

But though the summer is her rest, she always does enough to tire out anybody else.

Now, for instance, she is going to have three young ladies with her for the next two months (besides yourself, Miss d'Estree), whom she will have to be amusing all the time, and some friends of mine who will turn the house inside out.

But Sophie never grumbles." "Tell me about them all," I said, consuming with a fever of curiosity.
"O, I forgot you did not know them.

Shall I begin with the young ladies ?--( Sam, there's a stone in Jerry's off fore-foot; get down and look about it--Steady!--there, I knew it)--Excuse me, Miss d'Estree.
Well,--the young ladies.