Please look at mine, and see whether the spelling is right." "It is not my business to teach you to spell," said Gertrude, taking the pen.

And, while Jane was murmuring at her churlishness, she wrote in a bold hand: "I have broken the rules by sliding down the banisters to-day with Miss Carpenter and Miss Wylie.

Miss Wylie went first." "You wretch!" exclaimed Agatha, reading over her shoulder.

"And your father is an admiral!" "I think it is only fair," said Miss Lindsay, quailing, but assuming the tone of a moralist.

"It is perfectly true." "All my money was made in trade," said Agatha; "but I should be ashamed to save myself by shifting blame to your aristocratic shoulders.