Caroline is all joy, because early next month Mr.Grahame's family leave Brighton.

They have a fine house in Piccadilly not very far from us, and Caroline is anticipating great pleasure in the society of Annie.
I wonder what my sister can find to like so much in Miss Grahame; to me this friendship has been and is quite incomprehensible.

She does not possess one quality that would attract me; what a fortunate thing it is we do not all like the same sort of people.

Congratulate me, my dear friend, I am overcoming in a degree my dislike to the company of strangers.

Some of papa and mamma's select friends and their families have been calling on us the last month, and we have lately had rather more society in the evening; not anything like large parties, but nice little conversaziones, and really the lords and ladies who compose them are much more agreeable than my fancy pictured them.