Come, Daisy, I see a number of questions in your eyes, but they shall all be answered presently.

Take my hand now, and let us lead the way.

The other house is very pretty, but it is smaller than mine." The other house was quite close to Mrs.Ellsworthy's luxurious mansion.

It was built more in the cottage shape, was much smaller, and had a charming little garden and grounds round it.

The hall door opened into a porch, which was covered with roses, so that though the house was really in London, the effect was quite that of the country.
Standing in the porch, and looking extremely pretty in its flickering light and shade, stood Poppy Jenkins, in the neatest of handmaiden's attire, and as the girls all came into the shade of the cool porch, Noel himself, looking somewhat pale, and with a curious agitation in his manner, came out to meet them.
"This is my house," he said, "and Poppy is engaged as one of the servants.