I remember the field and the pond with the tadpoles, and making haystacks with Mr.Lavington." "She is right.

There WAS a pond with tadpoles," Mrs.Cosham corroborated.

"Millais made studies of it for 'Ophelia.' Some say that is the best picture he ever painted--" "And I remember the dog chained up in the yard, and the dead snakes hanging in the toolhouse." "It was at Tenby that you were chased by the bull," Mrs.Milvain continued.

"But that you couldn't remember, though it's true you were a wonderful child.

Such eyes she had, Mr.Denham! I used to say to her father, 'She's watching us, and summing us all up in her little mind.' And they had a nurse in those days," she went on, telling her story with charming solemnity to Ralph, "who was a good woman, but engaged to a sailor.