It brings back the time when your Uncle John and I went up the Rhine on our honey-moon.

And then, for English reading there's a very nice book Uncle John has somewhere on natural history, called 'Animals of a Quiet Life,' by a Mr.Hare, too--so comical, I always think.

It's good for you to be reading something.

It is what your poor dear granny would have wished if she had been alive.

Only it must not be poetry, Ruth, not poetry." Mrs.Alwynn did not approve of poetry.