"I have got a black kitten of my own and a yellow chick, and they are better than dolls because they can love me back.

And the ladies from the Wood House are going to take me out for drives--my, won't that be 'eavenly!" Nevertheless Kit shed a few tears when Caleb closed the little gate behind him.

"I want to stay here, and I want daddy too," she said rather pitifully.
All these weeks Malcolm had seen nothing of Cedric.

His visit to the Jacobis had been prolonged for another ten days, and then he wrote, in high spirits, to tell his sisters that Dick Wallace had invited him to go down to his father's place in Scotland.
"I expect I shall have rare sport there, and stalk a deer or two," he continued.

"Dick and I are to go down by the night mail on Thursday, but I will run over to Staplegrove for a few hours.