Here are your two pupils, Miss Minerva, safe and sound.

It struck me we were rather in the way, when that sweet young creature was brought home.

Sadly in want of quiet, poor thing--not in want of _us._ Mrs.Gallilee and Ovid, so clever and attentive, were just the right people in the right place.

So I put on my hat--I'm always available, Mr.Le Frank; I have the great advantage of never having anything to do--and I said to the girls, 'Let's have a walk.' We had no particular place to go to--that's another advantage of mine--so we drifted about.

I didn't mean it, but, somehow or other, we stopped at a pastry-cook's shop.