Insidious Current, will you allow a cup of coffee to drift in my direction?
I shall be only too happy to turn a somersault if it will afford you--thanks!--the smallest gratification." So Hildegarde's first lessons had been in obedience and in truthfulness; and these were fairly well learned before she began her ABC.

And so she knew now, that she might storm and weep as she would in her own room, but that the decree was fixed, and that unless the skies fell, her summer would be passed at Hartley's Glen..