"Let me see." And she said to Sadie firmly, "Tell cook I'll let her have them in ten minutes." Sadie went.
"Now, Laura," said her mother quickly, "come with me into the smoking-room.

I've got the names somewhere on the back of an envelope.
You'll have to write them out for me.

Meg, go upstairs this minute and take that wet thing off your head.

Jose, run and finish dressing this instant.

Do you hear me, children, or shall I have to tell your father when he comes home to-night?
And--and, Jose, pacify cook if you do go into the kitchen, will you?
I'm terrified of her this morning." The envelope was found at last behind the dining-room clock, though how it had got there Mrs.Sheridan could not imagine.
"One of you children must have stolen it out of my bag, because I remember vividly--cream cheese and lemon-curd.