Yes, down at Lakelands; and saw my first lemon butterfly in a dell of sunshine, out of the wind, and had half a mind to catch it for Fredi,--and should have caught it myself, if I had! The truth is, we three are country born and bred; we pine in London.

Good for a season; you know my old feeling.

They are to learn the secret of Lakelands to-morrow.

It 's great fun; they think I don't see they've had their suspicion for some time.

You said--somebody said--"the eye of a needle for what they let slip of their secrets, and the point of it for penetrating yours":--women.