Jasmine, I really think Miss Martineau quite loves us." "Perhaps," said Jasmine, in an indifferent tone.

"Well, Rose, if you are quite determined to be shabby and saving, I may as well join Daisy in the garden." Jasmine stooped down, kissed her sister lightly on the forehead, and then ran out of the room.

A moment or two later Primrose heard laughing voices floating in through the open window.

She was glad in her heart that Jasmine and Daisy were beginning to do things just as usual, and yet somehow their laughter gave her a pang.
The little cottage was a tiny place; it consisted downstairs of one long low room, with a bay window at the extreme end.

This room the Mainwarings called the drawing-room, and it was really furnished with great daintiness and care.