Trenholme suggested that he hardly thought her looking quite well.
"She's an odd child," said Sophia.

"I did not tell you, mamma, what I found her doing the other day.

She was trying on the white frock she had this spring when she was confirmed.

It's unlike her to do a thing like that for no reason; and when I teased her she began to cry, and then began speaking to me about religion.

She has been puzzled by the views your housekeeper holds, Mr.Trenholme, and excited by old Cameron's teaching about the end of the world." "I don't think it's the end of the world he's prophesying exactly," said Trenholme, musingly.