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Thank you so much for thinking of it--it was kind of you." And she held out her hand with the frank charm of manner which invariably turned Diana's acquaintances into friends inside ten minutes.
Little Miss Bunting flushed delightedly, and from that moment onward became one of the new boarder's most devoted adherents.
"You'd like some tea, I expect," she said presently.

"Will you have it up here--or in the dining-room with the other boarders in half an hour's time ?" "Oh, up here, please.

I can't possibly wait half an hour." "I ought to tell you," Miss Bunting continued, dimpling a little, "that it will be sixpence extra if you have it up here.

'_All meals served in rooms, sixpence extra_,'" she read out, pointing to the printed list of rules and regulations hanging prominently above the chimney-piece.
Diana regarded it with amusement.
"They ought to be written on tablets of stone like the Ten Commandments," she commented frivolously.