You see you were right about her future." Mr.Longdon gave another of his soft smothered sighs; he had turned back again to the first photograph, which he looked at for a longer time.
"Well, it wasn't HER way." "My mother's?
No indeed.

Oh my mother's way--!" Vanderbank waited, then added gravely: "She was taken in time." Mr.Longdon turned half-round as to reply to this, but instead of replying proceeded afresh to an examination of the expressive oval in the red plush frame.

He took up little Aggie, who appeared to interest him, and abruptly observed: "Nanda isn't so pretty." "No, not nearly.

There's a great question whether Nanda's pretty at all." Mr.Longdon continued to inspect her more favoured friend; which led him after a moment to bring out: "She ought to be, you know.

Her grandmother was." "Oh and her mother," Vanderbank threw in.