He's his own master." "But you approve, you know, as you countenance it; and there cannot possibly be a sweeter girl than Florence Burton.

We all like her, and I'm sure you seem to take to her thoroughly." "Take to her; yes, I take to her very well.

She's ladylike, and though she's no beauty, she looks pretty, and is spirited.

And I daresay she's clever." "And so good." "If she's good, that's better than all.

Only I don't see what they're to live." "But as she is here, you will go with us to the great house ?" Mrs.Clavering never asked her husband anything in vain, and the rector agreed to go.