I shall have to reflect.' 'Let me hear what you were going to say.

There's no harm in that, at all events.' 'My idea was, that, with your consent and my aunt's, Miss Hood should return just as if nothing had happened, and continue to teach the twins till next summer, when I should have done with Oxford.

There appears to me to be nothing irrational or unseemly in such a plan.

If she were our cook or housemaid, there might be reasonable objections.

As it is, it would hardly involve a change even in your tone to her, seeing that you are in the habit of treating her as a lady, and with a certain degree of familiar kindness.