'Did you not say one day that you ought by rights to get a governess for the children ?' Downe admitted that he had said so, but that he could not see his way to it.

'The kind of woman I should like to have,' he said, 'would be rather beyond my means.

No; I think I shall send them to school in the town when they are old enough to go out alone.' 'Now, I know of something better than that.

The late Lieutenant Savile's daughter, Lucy, wants to do something for herself in the way of teaching.
She would be inexpensive, and would answer your purpose as well as anybody for six or twelve months.

She would probably come daily if you were to ask her, and so your housekeeping arrangements would not be much affected.' 'I thought she had gone away,' said the solicitor, musing.