You have heard me speak of her as the girl who was so kind in nursing Bill." "Indeed, Ned! I should scarcely have expected to find so quiet and tidy looking a girl at Varley, still less to meet her with a male relation in church." "She lives at Varley, but she can hardly be called a Varley girl," Ned said.

"Bill was telling me about her.

Her uncle had her brought up down here.

She used to go back to sleep at night, but otherwise all her time was spent here.

It seems her mother never liked the place, and married away from it, and when she and her husband died and the child came back to live with her uncle he seemed to think he would be best carrying out his dead sister's wishes by having her brought up in a different way to the girls at Varley.