Eva always does.

I believe she loves you almost as well as if you were her father as well as ours." "Ah! that is pleasant news for me," he said with a smile.

"I am fond of her, too, though, of course, not with just the fondness I feel for my own children." "Oh, I am glad you don't! I shouldn't want you to love her as well as you do me.

Will you invite the girls, papa ?" "Yes; we will call to them through the telephone after breakfast." They did so, there was a joyful acceptance from each, and before the dinner hour they had both arrived.

Sydney had not gone with Maud and Dick.