"For shame!" said Maria.

Zo burst into singing.

_"Yah yah-yah-bellah-vitah-yah!_ Jolly! jolly! jolly!--we are going out for a drive!" Carmina waited, to say a friendly word, before she followed the girls.
"You didn't think me neglectful, Frances, when I let you go upstairs by yourself!" Miss Minerva answered sadly and kindly.

"The best thing you could do was to leave me by myself." Carmina's mind was still not quite at ease.

"Yes--but you were in pain," she said.
"You curious child! I am not in pain now." "Will you make me comfortable, Frances?
Give me a kiss." "Two, my dear--if you like." She kissed Carmina on one cheek and on the other.