"The younger girl seemed more amiable than her sister.

But what manners!" "Dreadful!" said Margaret, with knit brows, and a pursed mouth of humorous suffering.

"But she appeared to feel very much at home." "Oh, as to that, neither of them was much abashed.

Do you suppose Mr.
Beaton gave the other one some hints for that quaint dress of hers?
I don't imagine that black and lace is her own invention.

She seems to have some sort of strange fascination for him." "She's very picturesque," Margaret explained.