"Is it Hannah?
why she always says she hasn't a nerve in her whole body.

She's sometimes almost cross with me for being nervous, Mr.Prince." Noel stayed some little time longer with the sisters, and then returned to Rosebury in time to catch the evening train to London.
When he got there he went straight to Mrs.Ellsworthy's house.

That little lady was anxiously expecting him, and plied him with many questions on the spot.
"How is she taking it, Arthur ?" she asked.

"I have been forming and maturing my plans, and I now think a resident governess at Shortlands would be the nicest arrangement for the girls.

They cannot be parted, that is very evident, and as Primrose must be more than eighteen she would not care to go to school.