It was one of this good lady's essential privileges to speak out her mind to the younger generation of the Rosebury world.

Who had a better right to do this than she?
for had she not educated most of them?
had she not given them of the best of her French and her music?
and was she not even at this present moment Jasmine's and Daisy's instructress?
Primrose she considered her finished and accomplished pupil.

Surely the girls, even though they had refused to admit her for a month, would turn to her now with full confidence.

She settled herself comfortably in the arm-chair in which Primrose had placed her, and saying, in her high-pitched and thin voice-- "Now, my dears, you will take seats close to me--not too close, loves, for I dislike being crushed, and I have on my Sunday silk.

My dear girls, I want us now to have a really comfortable talk.