"If I took them up to town," Lady Agatha said, "they would see more of me, to be sure, but then they would always be losing me, for, of course, I couldn't take them out in town.

And they always know I'll come back--they're so wise.

The parting is dreadful, but they know I'll come back." Mary sometimes wondered how her Ladyship had found time to think out her novel.

For it seemed all ready and prepared in her mind.

She would sweep up and down the grass while she dictated.