Oh! do come.

Just to please me; you do not know how odious Eudoxia can be when it is so hot." "Yes, do go down," urged Katharina.

"What will you do up hereby yourself?
And this evening mother and I will come again." "Very well," said Paula.

"But first I must go to see the invalids." "May I go with you ?" asked the Water wagtail, coaxingly stroking Paula's arm.

But Mary clapped her hands, exclaiming: "She only wants to go to Orion--she is so fond of him...." Katharina put her hand over the child's mouth, but Paula, with quickened breath, explained that she had very serious matters to discuss with Orion; so Katharina, turning her back on her with a hasty gesture of defiance, sulkily went down stairs, while Mary slipped down the bannister rail.