"You may be sure we shall not have that.

And now I will go and get a bit of my handwriting, and see if you can help me decipher it." He left the room, but in an instant returned.
"A happy thought has just struck me!" he exclaimed.

"I wonder if those young Haverley people would take Mrs.Drane into their house for the rest of the summer?
It would be an excellent thing for them, for their household needs the presence of an elderly person, and I am sure that no one could be quieter, or more pleasant, and less troublesome, than Mrs.
Drane would be.

What do you think of that idea ?" Mrs.Tolbridge looked up approvingly.
"It is not a bad one," she said; "but what would the daughter do?
She could not come into town every day to do your work.

It is too long a walk for her, and she could not afford a conveyance." "No," said the doctor, "of course she could not go back and forwards every day, but it would not be necessary.