12/14 I see you're the same as ever. But we are not so easily taken in, are we, Hester ?" Mrs.Gresley certainly had the gift of prophecy as far as the Pratts were concerned. Mrs.Pratt duly took the expected "fancy" to Rachel, and pressed her to stay at "The Towers" while she was in the neighborhood, and make further acquaintance with her "young ladies." "Ada is very pernickety," she said, smiling towards that individual conversing with Dick. "She won't make friends with everybody, and she gives it me" (with maternal pride) "when I ask people to stay whom she does not take to. |