“Well then, well then—you won’t like her a bit, Miss Flower.”

“What’s her address?”

“Jasper Street; I think it’s Jasper Street.”

“And the number? She doesn’t live in the whole of Jasper Street.”

“Now, was it a one and a six or a one and a seven?” queried Mrs. Ricketts. “Oh, Miss! if I was you, I wouldn’t go near her; but I think her number is a one and a seven.”

“Seventeen, you mean.”

“Yes, that’s it; I was never great at counting.”


CHAPTER XII.