I am not clever at my needle, yet," said Caddy, glancing at the repairs on Peepy's frock, "but perhaps I shall improve, and since I have been engaged to Prince and have been doing all this, I have felt better-tempered, I hope, and more forgiving to Ma.

It rather put me out at first this morning to see you and Miss Clare looking so neat and pretty and to feel ashamed of Peepy and myself too, but on the whole I hope I am better-tempered than I was and more forgiving to Ma." The poor girl, trying so hard, said it from her heart, and touched mine.

"Caddy, my love," I replied, "I begin to have a great affection for you, and I hope we shall become friends." "Oh, do you ?" cried Caddy.

"How happy that would make me!" "My dear Caddy," said I, "let us be friends from this time, and let us often have a chat about these matters and try to find the right way through them." Caddy was overjoyed.

I said everything I could in my old-fashioned way to comfort and encourage her, and I would not have objected to old Mr.Turveydrop that day for any smaller consideration than a settlement on his daughter-in-law.
By this time we were come to Mr.Krook's, whose private door stood open.