I am sure you told Dr.Crother exactly what to say,' said Margaret, laughing, as she placed a chair by the bedside.
'Oh, of course I know you think everybody's a sham who isn't as strong as yourself!' said Mrs.Gaddesden, sinking back on her pillows with a soft sigh of resignation.

'Though I think you _might_ have remembered the horribly hard work I've been doing lately.' 'Have you ?' Mrs.Strang wrinkled her brow, as though in an effort to recollect.

'Oh, yes, I know.

I have always been getting notices lately with your name on them, at the end of a long tail beginning with a Duchess, and stuffed with Countesses.

And I always think--there's Alice doing the work, and the Countesses getting the glory.