"Oh, yes! dear Dr. Willis and Mrs. Wilmot are so kind to us. And then it is so pleasant to teach Clara and Grace, and every month to carry home some money to grandmamma."
"Then you carry to her whatever is paid you?"
"Yes; and after she has taken out what will pay Mrs. Daly our rent, and any thing else we happen to owe, she gives me back the rest to do what I please with. I long for this month to be gone, that I may get my money,—for I have something very good to do with it this month."
She looked up so pleasantly in my face, that I said, "Will you not tell me what it is, Cecille?"
"Yes, if you will not tell, for I want to surprise grandmamma. I am going to get her some flannel. I have found out already how much it will cost, and I will have a plenty of money, with a little that I laid by from the last month, to get it. Then I will get some one to show me how to cut it out, and it shall be all made before grandmamma sees it. Do you not think she will be pleased?"
"Very much pleased, I doubt not," I replied, "and you must let me cut it for you, and assist you in making it."
"Will you do that? That will be very kind."
We were both silent a little while, when Cecille, suddenly looking up, asked, "Do you not speak French?"
"Yes," I replied.
"Then you must come and see my grandmamma. Will you not?"