Miss Grieve thinks we had better not breakfast at home until she becomes accustomed to the surroundings." "Shall we allow her to become accustomed to them ?" I questioned.
"She came up from Glasgow to Edinburgh for the day, and went to see Mrs.
M'Collop just as our telegram arrived.

She was living with an 'extremely nice family' in Glasgow, and only broke her engagement in order to try Fifeshire air for the summer; so she will remain with us as long as she is benefited by the climate." "Can't you pay her for a month and send her away ?" "How can we?
She is Mrs.M'Collop's sister's husband's niece, and we intend returning to Mrs.M'Collop.

She has a nice ladylike appearance, but when she takes her bonnet off she looks seventy years old." "She ought always to keep it off, then," returned Francesca, "for she looked eighty with it on.

We shall have to soothe her last moments, of course, and pay her funeral expenses.

Did you offer her a cup of tea and show her the box-bed ?" "Yes; she said she was muckle obleeged to me, but the coals were so poor and hard she couldna batter them up to start a fire the nicht, and she would try the box-bed to see if she could sleep in it.