In a few weeks hence you will have forgotten her existence, and then the little thing will be disappointed." "But I have no intention of forgetting her in a few weeks," said Mrs.
Rushton indignantly.
"No; you have no intention--" said Mr.Enderby.
"You certainly are a most unsympathetic person," said Mrs.Rushton; and she went away feeling herself much ill-used, and firmly believing herself to be the only kind-hearted member of her family.
"After all, William," said Mrs.Enderby to her husband, "you ought not to be too hard upon Amy, for you see she has given up talking of going abroad with Lady Harriet." "True; I have noticed that.

Yet I fear she will not relinquish one folly without falling into another." "Her present whim is at all events an amiable one," said Mrs.Enderby gently.

"Let us hope no harm may come of it.' "I should think it all most natural and right if any other woman than Amy were in question," said Mr.Enderby; "but one never knows to what extravagant lengths she will go." The warnings of her brother had the effect of making Mrs.Rushton still more eager in her attendance on the child, and a few days after she had been "lectured" by him, as she put it to herself, she astonished good Mrs.Kane by saying: "I think she is quite fit to be moved now, Mrs.Kane, and the doctor says so.

I am going to take her home with me for a week for change of air." "Laws, ma'am, you never mean it!" "But I do mean it.

I am going to fatten her up and finish her cure." "Well, ma'am, I'm sure you are the kindest of the kind.