If you saw my little boys going so good to their school! What more did you do, Hetty ?" "I went into school, and schoolmistress put me in a corner.

Then I drew marks with my tears on the wall; and afterwards I said my spelling.

And I came home and got some daisies; and I saw Charlie Ford standing in the pond with his shoes and stockings on." "Oh my! oh my! well I never!" cried Mrs.Ford, snatching up her bonnet, and getting ready to go home in a hurry.

"Charley in the pond with his shoes and stockings on! It seems, Mrs.Kane, that I've been praising him too soon!" While Mrs.Ford was running down the road after Charley, Mrs.Enderby, up at Wavertree Hall, was directing her servants to carry the table for tea out upon the lawn under the wide-spreading beech-trees; and her two little daughters, Phyllis aged eight and Nell aged seven, were hovering about waiting to place baskets of flowers and strawberries on the embroidered cloth.

Mrs.Rushton, sister-in-law of Mrs.Enderby and aunt of the children, was spending the afternoon at the Hall, having come a distance of some miles to do so.
Mrs.Enderby was a tall graceful lady, with a pale, gentle, but rather cold face; her dress was severely simple and almost colourless; her voice was sweet.