Which preposition to use with grandparents
So by degrees she settled down once more, installed beside her grandparents in the old pavilion, which Mathieu fitted up for the three of them.
Had the Mesuriers possessed a coat-of-arms, James Mesurier would probably have kept it locked up as a frivolity to be ashamed of, for it was a part of his Puritanism that such earthly distinctions were foolishness with God; but, as a matter of fact, between Adam and the immediate great-grandparents of the young Mesuriers, there was a void which the Herald's office would have found a difficulty in filling.
"I think Mollie's grandmother would be more pleased with a gift of that kind than with one of the useless little fallals that children give their grandparents on Christmas Day.
They smiled softly at the idea of becoming great-grandparents before very long perhaps.
That was what they whipped my grandparents for.
With a less heroic insistence on the historic method, I leave grandparents out of sight, and begin my gossip with the Queen's uncles.