It is in a closely built portion of the town, but it seemed the only place where we could find suitable accommodations for your mother and you." "Oh, it is a nice place," exclaimed Cicely, "and I am sure we shall like it, except in hot weather, such as we are having now.

I have no doubt we shall get used to it after a little while." "La Fleur does not think so," said the doctor.

"She is very much dissatisfied with the Brinkly establishment.

I think I saw signs of mental disturbance in our luncheon to-day." Cicely laughed.

She was a girl who was pleasant to look at when she laughed, for her features accommodated themselves so naturally to mirthful expression.
"It is almost funny," she said, "to see how fond La Fleur is of mother.
She lived with us less than a year, and yet one might suppose she had always been a servant of the family.