The thought was exceeding disagreeable; but before she or anybody had spoken again, the door of the big bed-room opened gently, and Miss Cadwallader's pretty face peeped out.
"Are they all gone to bed?
-- are they all gone to bed ?" she said; -- "may I come, Mrs Landholm ?" She was in her dressing-gown, and tripping across the floor with the prettiest little bare feet in the world, she took a chair in the corner of the fireplace.
"They got so cold," she said, -- "I thought I would come out and warm them.

How cosy and delightful you do look here.

Dear Mrs.
Landholm, do stop working.

What are you talking about ?" There was a minute's hesitation, and then Elizabeth said, "Of reading the Bible." "The Bible! oh why should one read the Bible ?" she said, huddling herself up in the corner.

"It's very tiresome!" "Do you ever read it, Miss Rose ?" "I?
-- no, indeed I don't.