"Eh, what ?" he stammered.
It was disconcerting to Kitty to find that he had not been taking in a word of what it had cost her such an effort to say.

"I will do my best to look after the house and the servants," she repeated desperately, "if--" "But I am afraid, child, you really don't know how.

It is not in anger, Kitty, that I am making this new arrangement.

I am doing it because I feel you have a task entirely beyond your power, and for all your sakes I must see that you have an orderly and comfortable home, and--" "It won't be _comfortable_," said Kitty pathetically.

"It will never be that any more." "You must not begin by being prejudiced against your aunt," reasoned her father gently.
"I am not, father, really; we are not prejudiced," she answered; "but we know, and--and every one else knows that--that--well, when I told Jabez what was going to happen, he sat down on a bucket and he looked--he looked at first as though he were going to faint, and then as though he would leave.