"Oh yes, dear mother, you must go. Aunt Anna was rather too much for you. It was a pity that they all came at once, as you have seen no one for so long."
"Yes; and it brought the past back. But I will try to be patient."
"You are patient, mother dear," Salome said.
Ada now drew near the fire, and began: "I like Louise very much. She wants me to go to Edinburgh Crescent to-morrow to play tennis in the square. May I, mother? I can walk as far as the turn to the college with Reginald."
"I think we ought to begin with the children's lessons," Salome said, "and settle down. They are getting very unruly, just because they miss Miss Barnes's hand."
"It is no use beginning in the middle of a week," Ada said; "and I suppose I may have some lessons too—music lessons I do want."
"We shall see our way in time, darling," Mrs. Wilton said; "and I must try to manage about a piano. But I think Salome is right about the children; they ought to begin regular lessons. Mrs. Pryor complains of their running so much up and down stairs. She says it wears out the carpet."
"Mrs. Pryor is a most disagreeable woman," said Ada. "I certainly do agree with Raymond that we ought to remove."
"Nonsense, Ada. Think of all the trouble over again, and all our things just settled in and unpacked."
She was interrupted by Reginald rushing in from the college. He was full of life and spirit; and had found Rugby boys were thought something of, as the head-master himself and several of the assistant-masters were Rugbians. He had taken an excellent place; and, altogether, the world seemed to smile on Reginald.