7/23 There was a sparkle of excitement in her eyes, and her whole atmosphere seemed to radiate news. She ran in as joyously as a girl, clapping her hands and evidently brimming over with something she was about to communicate. "You look as if you'd had a fortune left you. Tell us at once." "Not quite a fortune, but next best to it," said Mrs.Beverley, sitting down on the end of the sofa. "Daddy says I may tell you now, bairns. |