You will get on fast enough when you become acquainted with my writing." She was on the point of saying that surely he had had time to get acquainted with it, and yet he could not read it; but she considered that she did not yet know the doctor well enough for that.
The doctor rose and took up his hat; then he suddenly turned toward Miss Drane and said, "La Fleur, our cook, came to speak to me this morning about your mother.

She says she thinks that you are not well lodged; that the street is in the hottest part of the town, and that Mrs.Drane's health will suffer if you stay there.

Does your mother object to your present quarters ?" Cicely, who had been half way to the door, now came back and stood by the table.
"Mother never objects to anything," she said.

"She thinks our rooms are very neat and comfortable, and that Mrs.Brinkly is a kind landlady, but she has complained a great deal of the heat.

You know our house was very airy." "I am sorry," said the doctor, "that Mrs.Brinkly's house is not likely to prove pleasant.