"What a greedy little creature! Why, you will have Milly and Lucy, as well as Papa and Mama, and not satisfied!"
"If I had you too, I should be perfectly satisfied. I should not want anything else in the world."
"Ah, Lena dear, I fear that you would not find it so."
"Yes, I am sure I should."
Auntie shook her head. "Don't be too confident, dear; you must not expect that in the future you will have everything you want. You will have to share your pleasures with Milly."
"Oh, I shall like that."
"I am very glad to hear it, dear," was the quiet answer.
"Now, Auntie, don't look so grave; for you will see how well I shall behave, and show that your child can be really good."
"Not my child, Lena dear. To be really good you must be the child of God."
Auntie spoke so gravely that Lena, humbled and ashamed, whispered, "Yes indeed, Auntie, I will try," as she gave and received her good-night kiss.