I tried to describe my great-grandfather's sketches, but neither Aunt Theresa in the drawing-room, nor Matilda when we retired for the night, seemed to feel any interest in the subject; and when Mrs.Buller asked what sort of people called at The Vine, I felt that my reply was, like the rest of my news, but dull.
Matilda's, on the contrary, was very entertaining.

She spoke enthusiastically of Miss Perry, the governess.
"She is so good-natured, Margery, you can't think.

When lessons are over she takes me walks on the Esplanade, and she calls me her dear Matilda, and I take her arm, and she tells me all about herself.

She says she knows she's very romantic.

And she's got lots of secrets, and she's told me several already; for she says she has a feeling that I can keep a secret, and so I can.