It's my belief, Dove, that they're short of funds, for when I went yesterday to ask for the trifling loan of tenpence three-farthings to pay the cobbler for Tommy's boots, Miss Mainwaring said, as pretty as you please, but very prim and firm--'I haven't really got the money, Mrs.Dove.' Well, well, I've done a deal for those girls--elbow grease I've given them, and thought I've given them, and books for the improving of their intellecs I've lent them, and that's all the return I get, that when I bring up a letter it isn't even 'Thank you, Mrs.Dove.' What I say is this, Dove, shall I give the attics notice to quit ?" "By no manner of means," answered Dove--"you mark my words, Mrs.Dove, my only love, that why they were so flurried over the letter just received was because there was money in it.

Don't you turn away nice, genteel, quiet-spoken young ladies from this house.

There's most likely a postal order in that letter, and my name ain't Dove if I don't get my gleanings from it." "Oh, fie, Dove! you will have your joke," answered his wife; but she said nothing further about giving the Mainwarings notice to quit..