Is she really to stay ?" "I hope so," said Hilary, trying to be grave.

"I hope never again to see Aunt Johanna cleaning the stairs, and getting up to light the kitchen fire of winter mornings, as she will do if we have not a servant to do it for her.

Don't you see, Ascott ?" "Oh, I see," answered the boy, carelessly, "But don't bother me, please.

Domestic affairs are for women, not men." Ascott was eighteen, and just about to pass out of his caterpillar state as a doctor's apprentice-lad into the chrysalis condition of a medical student in London.

"But," with sudden reflection, "I hope she won't be in my way.