But you have only just had a taste of what the rain can do in the lakes you know, so far.

Father and I have been here sometimes when it has rained two or three weeks without stopping." "Oh dear!" said Milly, looking extremely melancholy.

"I like the mountains very much, mother; but _do_ you think we'd better come to Ravensnest again after this year ?" "Oh you ungrateful little woman!" said Mrs.Norton, whose love for the place was so real that Milly's speech gave her quite a pang.

"Have you forgotten all your happy sunshiny days here, just because it has rained for two?
Why, when I was a little girl, and used to come here, the rainy days never made me love the place a bit the less.

I always used to think the fine days made up." "But then, mother, you were a nice little girl," said Milly, throwing her arms round her mother's neck and kissing her.