I can be allowed to make a companion of Miss Helen Gaythorne." "What a very unpleasant way you always have of twisting things!" said Phyllis, who had been remarkably silent all along as to the change in Hetty's circumstances.

"I am as glad as anyone of Hetty's discovery; but I do not see why it should make any difference to us." "Phyllis takes a more disinterested view of the matter than you do, Nell," said Mrs.Enderby smiling; "but then my Phyllis was always a wise little girl." Nell pouted, and Phyllis held her head high.

Mrs.Enderby thought she knew the hearts of both.

But the woman who could be so exceedingly prudent in the management of "nobody's child" was blind to a great deal that required skilful treatment in the characters and dispositions of her own daughters.
Miss Davis was more affected than anyone in the house by the news of Hetty's extraordinary good fortune.

Unconsciously to herself she had learned to love the girl, whom she had counted upon having by her side for many years to come, and it was not without a pang that she saw the young figure disappear suddenly out of her future.