She was as nice, honest, patient a girl as need be before; and now she fancies she has new light and new wisdom.

I don't like those notions.' 'You mistake him, indeed you do, my dear Mrs.Dempster; I wish you'd go and hear him preach.' 'Hear him preach! Why, you wicked woman, you would persuade me to disobey my husband, would you?
O, shocking! I shall run away from you.

Good-bye.' A few days after this conversation, however, Janet went to Sally Martin's about three o'clock in the afternoon.

The pudding that had been sent in for herself and 'Mammy,' struck her as just the sort of delicate morsel the poor consumptive girl would be likely to fancy, and in her usual impulsive way she had started up from the dinner table at once, put on her bonnet, and set off with a covered plateful to the neighbouring street.

When she entered the house there was no one to be seen; but in the little sideroom where Sally lay, Janet heard a voice.