"I cannot say anything about it.

I daresay he is very nice." "It will be so delightful to go to the Hall to dinner and be waited on by big real servants--not like Susan at the vicarage, or Martha.

Won't you like it, mamma?
Of course Mr.Juxon will have real servants, just like--like poor papa." Nellie finished her speech rather doubtfully as though not sure how her mother would take it.

Mrs.Goddard sighed again, but said nothing.

She could not stop the child's talking--why should Nellie not speak of her father?
Nellie did not know.
"I think it will be perfectly delightful," said Nellie, seeing she got no answer from her mother, and as though putting the final seal of affirmation to her remarks about the Hall.