'It's cheerin' when you don't feel quite the thing.

I doubt you can't sing though.' 'Oh, the cold's all gone,' replied Thyrza.

'We'll see, after tea.' They made much of him, and it must have been very sweet to the poor old fellow to be so affectionately tended by these whom he loved as his own children.
Mary Bower came not long after tea, then Mr.Boddy took out his violin from the bag and played all the favourite old tunes, those which brought back their childhood to the two girls.

To please Mary, Lydia asked for a hymn-tune, one she had grown fond of in chapel.

Mary began to sing it, so Lydia got her hymn-book and asked Thyrza to sing with them.