What it comes to, simply stated, is that really she must choose between Aggie and Tishy.

I'm afraid I should shock you were I to tell you what I should think of myself for packing MY child, all alone, off for a week with Mrs.Grendon." Mrs.Brookenham, who had many talents, had none perhaps that she oftener found useful than that of listening with the appearance of being fairly hypnotised.

It was the way she listened to her housekeeper at their regular morning conference, and if the rejoinder ensuing upon it frequently appeared to have nothing to do with her manner this was a puzzle for her interlocutor alone.

"Oh of course I know your theory, dear Jane, and I dare say it's very charming and old-fashioned and, if you like, aristocratic, in a frowsy foolish old way--though even upon that, at the same time, there would be something too to be said.

But I can only congratulate you on finding it more workable than there can be any question of MY finding it.