Do your best, and, above all things, take them away from that awful mansion as soon as possible.
"Your affectionate Mother-Friend, "KATE ELLSWORTHY." But alas! when Arthur Noel, in accordance with Mrs.Ellsworthy's instructions, went to see the girls, he was confronted first by Mrs.
Flint, who assured him in her soft and cushion-like style that the young ladies had left, and as they had been undutiful enough not to confide in her she could furnish him with no address.

As he was leaving the mansion Poppy Jenkins rushed up to him.
"I heard you asking for my young ladies, sir, but it ain't no use, for they're gone.

Flowers of beauty they was--beautiful in manner and in face--but they ain't to be found here no more.

The Mansion didn't suit them, and the people in the Mansion didn't suit them, and that isn't to be wondered at.

I suppose they has gone to a more congenial place, but the address is hid from me; no, sir, I know nothing at all about them.