' But she interrupted, not fretfully or argumentatively, but with a settled air of content: 'No! I'm going to sleep with The Man!' 'But, dear one,' the mother expostulated, 'The Man will want sleep too.' 'All right, mother.

He can sleep too.

I'll be very good and lie quite quiet; but oh! mother, I can't sleep unless his arms are round me.

I'm afraid if they're not the sea will get me!' and she clung closer to Harold, tightening her arms round his neck.
'You will not mind ?' asked Mrs.Stonehouse timidly to Harold; and, seeing acquiescence in his face, added in a burst of tearful gratitude: 'Oh! you are good to her to us all!' 'Hush!' Harold said quietly.

Then he said to Pearl, in a cheerful matter- of-fact way which carried conviction to the child's mind: 'Now, darling, it is time for all good little girls to be asleep, especially when they have had an--an interesting day.