If I meet Erskine I will tell him the good news." "He will be delighted.

He thought, as we all did, that you were cutting him out with Gertrude." Trefusis smiled, shook his head, and, with a glance of admiring homage to Jane's charms, went out.

Jane was contemplating herself in the glass when a servant begged her to come and speak to Master Charles and Miss Fanny.

She hurried upstairs to the nursery, where her boy and girl, disputing each other's prior right to torture the baby, had come to blows.

They were somewhat frightened, but not at all appeased, by Jane's entrance.