"Before I brave meeting Jimmy Danvers in the passage again, in my dressing-gown, to come and tell you delicious things, I'll be hanged!" And it was with difficulty that Emily and Mary mollified her, and got her to re-seat herself on the bed and have a bit of their bread-and-butter.

She had fled to announce her thrilling news before her own tea had come.
"I do think men look perfectly horrid with their hair unbrushed in the morning, don't you, Em ?" she said, presently, as she munched, while Mary poured her out some tea into the emptied sugar-basin and handed it to her.

"Henry's fortunate, because his is curly"-- Here Mary blushed--"and I believe Jimmy Danvers gets his valet to glue his down before he goes to bed.

But you should see what Aunt Muriel has to put up with, when Uncle Aubrey comes in to talk to her, while I am there.

The front, anyhow, and a lock sticking up in the back! There is one thing I am determined about.