No, she is not very young,--nearly forty, I believe,--but she is so nice-looking; she was engaged to a clergyman, but he died, and they had been engaged so many years, and so now she will not marry.

She is very cheerful, however, and all her pupils love her, and I am sure you will be happy with her, Jill.' Jill would not quite allow this, but the next day she recurred to the subject, and asked me a good many questions about Miss Gillespie, and when I told her that it was settled that Miss Gillespie should join them at Hastings she really looked quite pleased; but nothing would induce her to open the case of books Aunt Philippa had sent down, and when I told Uncle Max he only laughed.
'Let her be as idle as she likes.

She is over-educated now, and knows far more than most girls of her age.

Take her about with you, and make her useful.' And I followed this advice implicitly, but for a different reason,--there was no keeping Mr.Tudor out of the house; so when I was engaged, and Jill could not be with me, I took advantage of a general invitation that Miss Hamilton had given me, and sent her up to Gladwyn.
They were all very kind to her, and she seemed to amuse Miss Darrell, but after a time Mr.Tudor began going there too, and then indeed I should have been at my wits' end, only Mrs.Maberley came to my rescue.

She took a fancy to Jill, and Jill reciprocated it, and presently she and Lady Betty began to spend most of their idle hours at Maplehurst..