I have been with her an hour already this morning." Young Mathew smiled.

This was amusing, though not what he had expected.
"How extremely alert and businesslike!" he said lazily.

"It's becoming to you--to get up early!" "You can't have got much of a person--at a minute's notice," said his grandmother.

"Or perhaps you have been planning this for some time ?" "No," said Viva.

"I have wanted to get rid of Mrs.Halsey for some time, but the new one I found yesterday." "What's her name ?" inquired Mathew.
"Bell--Miss Diantha Bell," she answered, looking as calm as if announcing the day of the week, but inwardly dreading the result somewhat.