When a rejected proposition is laid before them a second time, the disposition to resent has lost its force, and they are as likely to accept it as not." "You are right," said Mrs.Tolbridge, "for I have tried that plan with you." The doctor looked at her and laughed.
"It is astonishing," he exclaimed, "what coincidences we meet with in this world," and with that he left the room.
As soon as her husband had gone, Mrs.Tolbridge leaned back in her chair and laughed quietly.
"To think of asking Miss Panney to aid in a plan like that!" she said to herself.

"Why, when the old lady hears of it she will blaze like fury.

To send that pretty Cicely to live in the house for which she herself has selected a mistress, will seem to her like high treason.

But the arrangement suits me perfectly, and I can only hope that Miss Panney may not hear of it until everything is settled." The more Dr.Tolbridge thought of the plan to establish Mrs.and Miss Drane, for a time, at Cobhurst, the better he liked it.

Not only did he think the arrangement would be a desirable one on the Drane side, but also on the Haverley side.