CHAPTER III.
THE NEW ESTATE Mary took the news of her great promotion in an unthankful spirit.
"Lady Anne is very kind," she said tearfully; "but I don't want to stay with her.

I couldn't bear to live anywhere but in Wistaria Terrace.

It is absurd that you should say you have given your consent, papa.

How could you possibly have consented when the house could not get on without me?
You know it could not.

Why, even for a day things would be all topsy-turvy without me." "And so you have not gone to school," the father answered, with an accent of self-reproach.