Have you come from Mrs.
Ellsworthy, dearest ?" "Not at all," answered Primrose.

"Mrs.Ellsworthy has nothing to say to me.

She is only a friend, nothing more.

Miss Martineau, we have discovered that we cannot live on our little income.

Please will you tell me how we can add to it, so that we three can keep together ?" "Keep together--impossible!" replied Miss Martineau.