Why ?" "She walks so slowly," said Eleanor, gazing anxiously at Mrs.Perowne out of her dark eyes, "and she is so white in the face." "Oh, my dear!" said Matilda, laughing, "that's puff--puff, and a white veil.

It's to make her look young.

I heard Mrs.Minchin tell Mamma that she knew she was thirty-seven at least.

But she dresses splendidly.

If you stay over Sunday, you'll see her close, for she sits in front of us in church.