Is there anything I can do for you ?" "No, thank you," said Lawrence.

"I will lean on this good man, and I think I can hop to the house." "Peggy," said Miss Roberta, "walk on the other side of the gentleman, and let him lean upon your shoulder.

I will go on and have something prepared to put on his ankle." With one side supported by the stout Isham, and his other hand resting on the shoulder of the good little Peggy, who bore up as strongly under it as if she had been a big walking-stick, Lawrence slowly made his way to the house.

Miss March got there sometime before he did, and was very glad to find that Mrs Keswick had not yet gone out on the walk for which she was prepared.

That circumspect old lady had found this and that to occupy her, while she so managed her household matters, that one thing should follow another, to detain her niece.