Think what a comfort your letters will be to me; I shall be able to depend on what you say.

Lady Betty is so careless, she knows what Etta is, and yet she will leave her letters about, and more than once they have not reached me.

I am afraid that Leah is a little unscrupulous in such matters.' I was aghast as I listened to her, but she changed the subject quickly.
'What were we talking about?
Oh, I said Giles was hard; and so he was; but Eric was faulty too.
'He was very idle; he would not work, and he thought of nothing but his painting.

Giles always says I encouraged him in his idleness; but this is hardly the truth.

I used to try and coax him to open his books, but he had got this craze for painting, and he spent hours at his easel.