I am sure it is very kind of her." "I know it is, Mother dear," said Kathleen.

"But don't you think you would be so much better ?" "Oh, rubbish!" cried Nora.

"If it were not Jane that is coming, I would go myself; I would only be too glad to go.

He is perfectly splendid, so patient, and so jolly too, and Kathleen, you ought to go." "Nora, dear, we won't discuss it," said the mother in the tone that the family knew meant the end of all conversation.

Kathleen hurried away from them and took refuge in her own room.