This did not in the least move Sackville's equanimity.

'Take him upstairs, Joseph,' said he to the hobbadehoy, 'and--Joseph--don't tell his mamma.' What could make a man so happily disposed, unhappy?
What could cause discomfort, bickering, and estrangement in a family so friendly and united?
Ladies, it was not my fault--it was Mrs.Chuff's doing--but the rest of the tale you shall have on a future day..