And after that Miss Anne spoke quite freely about it, so that I had to beg her to be silent even before the girls.

You know how imprudent she is.

But it is all over now.

Of course Miss Annabella is right.

He has got a great many people to think of; his father and mother, and his darling little Edith, whom he brought here twice, and left her with us once for two days, so that she got to know me quite well; and I took such a love for her, that I could not bear to part with her.