She is good for either driving or riding; but I dropped a hint once, in Dinah's hearing, that I longed for a dog-cart, and though she said nothing at the time, she and Elizabeth put their heads together, and they got Mr.Brodrick, a neighbour of ours, to choose it." "Your sisters are very good to you," observed Malcolm in rather a patronising manner.

He even smiled to himself furtively at the thought of the two gentle spinsters.

"A good-looking boy like Cedric is always spoilt by his womankind," he said to himself.

"If I ever get on intimate terms with them, which is very unlikely, I shall tell them that all this petting and spoiling is not good for the lad, and will only unfit him for his work in life.

Women have no sense of proportion," he continued rather irritably; "they either do too much or too little, and the Misses Templeton seem to be no exceptions to the rule." They had left Earlsfield behind them, and were now climbing the long, winding ascent that led to Staplegrove.