If not, I shall take your fond love to all of them at home--Tom, and Dick, and Harry, and Harriet, and Prissy, and all of them"-- Joe really was carrying the thing through splendidly--"and perhaps, my dear, when you are a grand lady in England, you will give a thought--a thought now and again--to your old friends across the water." "Oh, Joe!" cried Lotty, really carried away with admiration, and ashamed of her skeptical spirit.

"Oh," she whispered, "ain't you splendid!" "But you must not go, Dr.Washington," said Clara, "without coming again to say farewell.

Will you not dine with us to-night?
Will you stay and have lunch ?" "No, madam, I thank you.

It will be best for me to leave Iris alone with you.

The sooner she learns your English ways and forgets American ways, the better." "But you are not going to start away for Liverpool at once?
You will stay a day or two in London--" The American physician said that perhaps he might stay a week longer for scientific purposes.
"Have you got enough money, Joe ?" asked the new Iris thoughtfully.
Joe gave her a glance of infinite admiration.
"Well," he said, "the fact is that I should like to buy a few books and things.