I must allude to her as something.
At present she fills the place in the house of a pretty (and expensive) Persian cat; and like a cat she has made herself serenely at home.
A governess, a fat-checked girl, who I am afraid takes too humorous a view of the position, comes of mornings to instruct Carlotta in the rudiments of education.

When engaging Miss Griggs, I told her she must be patient, firm and, above all, strong-minded.

She replied that she made a professional specialty of these qualities, one of her present pupils being a young lady of the Alhambra ballet who desires the particular shade of cultivation that will match a new brougham.

She teaches Carlotta to spell, to hold a knife and fork, and corrects such erroneous opinions as that the sky is an inverted bowl over a nice flat earth, and that the sun, moon, and stars are a sort of electric light installation, put into the cosmos to illuminate Alexandretta and the Regent's Park.

Her religious instruction I myself shall attend to, when she is sufficiently advanced to understand my teaching.