"You will of course employ Lucinda to teach your own?"
"No, I am not in want of a governess. Would you like to have Anna give lessons to your girls in music and drawing?"
"Is she to teach yours?" asked Enna.
"No; M. Reboul has them under his instruction, and as he gives entire satisfaction, I could not feel it right to turn him away."
"H'm! teachers that are not good enough for your children, are not good enough for ours."
"If I were in want of teachers, I should employ the Misses Foster," was
Elsie's quiet reply.
Nothing more was said for a moment, then rising to go, "I am then to consider my proposition declined?" she remarked, inquiringly.
"Well no, since you put it on the ground of a favor to yourself, I should be sorry to refuse to gratify you," said Louise.
"Thank you. And you, Enna?"
"She can teach mine if she wants to, and if I could afford it, Annie should give music lessons to Molly; drawing too; but if I can't, I can't."