We ought to try and look at the bright side.

It is not as if we had not been asked.

We have not been overlooked." "No," said Ruth, promptly; and in her own mind she registered a vow that in her future home she would never give the pain that being overlooked by the larger house can cause to the smaller house.
"And I will stay with you, Aunt Fanny," she went on, cheerfully.

"Uncle John can go by himself, and we will do just what we like while he is away, won't we ?" But at this Mrs.Alwynn demurred.

She was determined that if she played the role of a martyr she would do it well.