You have done a good deal for Mrs. Drane in giving her daughter employment, and we cannot be expected to attend to her every need.

"The young man and that Cicely Drane of yours have agreed to marry each other, and I suppose the old lady will live with them, and Miriam will have to get down from her high horse and agree to play second fiddle, or go to school again.

This was Cicely Drane; and although it was not yet ten days since Miss Panney broached her plan of the employment of Miss Drane as the doctor's secretary, or rather copyist, here she was, hard at work, and she had been for two days.

"I wonder if those young Haverley people would take Mrs. Drane into their house for the rest of the summer?

She greeted Miss Drane with much suavity, and asked her if she liked apples.