Let me see you get your tea, and then perhaps it'll make me feel I could drink a cup.

There, you've put your hair all out of order; let me smooth it.

Don't trouble to lay the cloth; just use the tray; it's in the cupboard." Ida obeyed, and set about the preparations.

Compare her face with that which rested sideways upon the pillows, and the resemblance was as strong as could exist between two people of such different ages: the same rich-brown hair, the same strongly-pencilled eye-brows; the deep-set and very dark eyes, the fine lips, the somewhat prominent jaw-bones, alike in both.

The mother was twenty-eight, the daughter ten, yet the face on the pillow was the more childish at present.