And how's your mother ?" "She's quite well, thank you." "That's right--that's right.

We haven't seen you lately.

You must come up to tea with your sisters.

I'm afraid you won't find Ernest, he's gone back to school--but I dare say you're not too big to play with little girls." Jeremy felt some triumph at his heart.
"I'm going to school to-morrow," he said.

But if he expected Mrs.Dean to be pitiful at this statement he was greatly mistaken.
"Are you, indeed?
Such a pity you couldn't have gone with Ernest--but he'd be senior to you, of course...