But you must have a little patience.

I shall be up tomorrow, if this beastly sea continues to go down; and then we will try to find somebody suitable to introduce to you.' 'Thank you, mamma,' said my daughter, without a ray of suspicion.

Then she added consideringly, 'Aunt Emma and Aunt Alice do seem quite elderly ladies beside you, and yet you are older than either of them aren't you?
I wonder how that is.' It was so innocent, so admirable, that I laughed at my own expense; while Cecily, doing her hair, considered me gravely.

'I wish you would tell me why you laugh, mamma,' quoth she; 'you laugh so often.' We had not to wait after all for my good offices of the next morning.
Cecily came down at ten o'clock that night quite happy and excited; she had been talking to a bishop, such a dear bishop.

The bishop had been showing her his collection of photographs, and she had promised to play the harmonium for him at the eleven-o'clock service in the morning.
'Bless me!' said I, 'is it Sunday ?' It seemed she had got on very well indeed with the bishop, who knew the married sister, at Tunbridge, of her very greatest friend.