We have not seen Enna yet, or Arthur.

Grandpa and Mrs.
Dinsmore and Walter called yesterday.

But there is the dinner-bell.

Let me conduct you to the dining-room." They were just in time to sit down with the others.
Elsie quickly perceived by her Aunt Lora's look and manner, that she, too, had heard the news, but no remark was make on the subject till the ladies had retired to the drawing-room, leaving the gentlemen to the enjoyment of their after-dinner cigars.
Then Mrs.Howard, facing round upon her niece as they entered the room, exclaimed, "Elsie, you naughty child! are you not ashamed of yourself ?" "On account of what, auntie ?" "Such unconscious innocence!" cried Lora, throwing up the white and jeweled hands she had rested lightly for an instant upon the young girl's shoulder, while gazing steadily into the smiling, blushing, sparkling face.

"You haven't been planning and promising to give Adelaide and me a nephew older than ourselves?
I tell you, miss, I refuse my consent.