She hasn't handed much of it down, has she, ma'am ?" "Perhaps she will improve as she grows older," the officer's wife said good-naturedly.

"If she were not so sallow and had a nicer expression, her features are rather good.

Children alter so much." "She'll have to alter a good deal," answered Mrs.Medlock.

"And, there's nothing likely to improve children at Misselthwaite--if you ask me!" They thought Mary was not listening because she was standing a little apart from them at the window of the private hotel they had gone to.

She was watching the passing buses and cabs and people, but she heard quite well and was made very curious about her uncle and the place he lived in.