And then the girls?
Is it true what Timmy says--that Rosamund wants to be an actress ?" There was a slight tone of censorious surprise in his voice, and Betty reddened.
"I don't see why she shouldn't be an actress if she wants to be! Father's making her wait till she's twenty-one." "Let me see," he said hesitatingly, "Dolly's older than Jack, isn't she ?" "Oh, no.

Dolly will only be twenty next Thursday." There came over her an overwhelming impulse to tell him something--the sort of thing she could only have told George.
"You know that pretty old church at Oakford ?" He nodded.
"Well, Mr.Runsby is dead.

They've got a bachelor clergyman now, and Janet and I think that he's becoming very fond of Dolly! He's away just now, or you would have already seen him.

He's very often over here." "I should have thought--" He hesitated in his turn, but already he was falling again into the way of saying exactly what he thought right out to Betty--"that with you and Rosamund in the house, no one would look at Dolly!" Betty blushed, and for a fleeting moment Godfrey saw the blushing, dimpling Betty of long ago.
"Rosamund has the utmost contempt for him.

As for me, he never sees me--I'm always in the kitchen when he comes here." She added with a touch of the quiet humour he remembered, "I don't think Dolly's in any danger from me!" "_Why_ are you always in the kitchen, Betty ?" he asked.