Of course the girl stands gaping and staring and does not do them, or does them so badly, that she gets a thorough scolding." "Is she very stupid, do you think ?" asked Johanna, in unconscious appeal to her pet's stronger judgment.
"No, I don't.

Far from stupid; only very ignorant, and--you would hardly believe it--very nervous.

Selina frightens her.

She gets on extremely well with me." "Any one would, my dear.

That is," added the conscientious elder sister, still afraid of making the "child" vain, "any one whom you took pain with.