Matilda Drummond even said--and I have never forgotten it to her--that if she was my nephew, Jarvis, she'd have my condition of mind inquired into.

Yet see how it has turned out! Is she spoilt?
Is she an upstart?
Is she set above her family?
She's over there this minute with that poor little drab stepmother of hers.

She worships her father.

The joys and sorrows of the poor little household are as much to her to-day as the day she left them." "I know," said Lady Agatha.

"She's pure gold.