"Oh, yes, you will to please me!" said Harriet, "you will be so much admired. Think how well you will look, so like a dear wax-work!"
"Then you must do something for me in return," said Everard.
"Oh! that is Jewish; but I will do several things, if you are quite perfect."
"You know what I mean," said Everard.
"Yes, I know all about it," said Harriet, "there, take my part-book, go down into the library, and have all that scene perfect before I come."
"Well, but where are you going? I could sit here, and you read it out to me, I should learn it faster that way."
"Take him away, George, do!" cried Harriet stamping her foot.
The brothers disappeared together, and Harriet remained leaning against the window, making some mental calculations, which she seemed counting on her fingers.
"Yes," she said to herself, at last, "I will amuse Everard with Miss Campbell, and then Margaret—"
Margaret started in fear.