'Yes—don't you think the end of June would do nicely?'
'It will have to I suppose, but it is a long time off.'
'Never mind, it will soon be gone,' says Miss Seaton sweetly.
'June be it then,' replies Jimmy. 'The leafy month of June.'
CHAPTER XI
'Thee will I love and reverence, evermore.'
—Aubrey de Vere.
'There, Mab, I really can't write any more,' and throwing down her pen, regardless that it is full of ink, and that it alights on a photograph of Teddy, thereby giving him a black eye, Miss Seaton rises from the writing-table and flings herself into an armchair.
'Well, dear,' says Mabel, 'I said I would do them for you, after you are gone to-morrow, look at these little china figures, I don't believe you've glanced at them, they came from old Mrs Boothly and I fancy they are real Sévres—?'