Now I don't feel as if I cared about anything." Mabel never reflected on the possibility of her own words causing annoyance.

She ate her breakfast without observing that both her mother and Catherine looked depressed.

Presently, like the thoughtless child she was, she looked up with laughing eyes: "Won't the Bells look funny in those grand robes.

Do you know, Kate, I heard such a ridiculous thing yesterday.

It was Mrs.Gorman Stanley who told me.