Carmina and Ovid were amused.

Teresa rebuked them, as if they had been children.

"Laugh at some fitter time," she said, "not now." Descending the stairs, Mrs.Gallilee and Ovid met the footman.

"Mr.Mool is in the library, ma'am," the man said.
"Have you anything to do, Ovid, for the next half-hour ?" his mother asked.
"Do you wish me to see Mr.Mool?
If it's law-business, I am afraid I shall not be of much use." "The lawyer is here by appointment, with a copy of your late uncle's Will," Mrs.Gallilee answered.

"You may have some interest in it.