You always understand." "But you know we are so young, that now we have not her to judge for us, we must only do little things that we are quite sure of, or we shall get wrong." "That's not the way great things were done." "I don't know, Ethel; I think great things can't be good unless they stand on a sure foundation of little ones." "Well, I believe Richard was right, and it would not do to begin on Sunday, but he was so tame; and then my frock, and the horrid deficiency in those little neatnesses." "Perhaps that is good for you in one way; you might get very high-flying if you had not the discipline of those little tiresome things, correcting them will help you, and keep your high things from being all romance.

I know dear mamma used to say so; that the trying to conquer them was a help to you.

Oh, here's Mary! Mary, will you get Ethel's dressing things?
She has come home wet-footed and cold, and has been warming herself by my fire." Mary was happy to help, and Ethel was dressed and cheered by the time Dr.May came in, for a hurried visit and report of his doings; Flora followed on her way from her room.

Then all went to tea, leaving Margaret to have a visit from the little ones under charge of nurse.

Two hours' stay with her, that precious time when she knew that sad as the talk often was, it was truly a comfort to him.