"Oh, Lulu, do!" entreated the latter; "you surely have held out long enough,"
"I should think so," said Max; "especially considering how kind Grandpa Dinsmore has been to us all, and that papa ordered us to be obedient to him."
"I'd give up," remarked Walter, "'cause there's no use fighting grandpa. Everybody has to mind him. Even mamma never does anything he asks her not to."
"The idea of not being your own mistress, even when you're a grandmother!" exclaimed Lulu scornfully.
"Mamma is her own mistress," retorted Rose. "It is only that she loves grandpa so dearly, and thinks him so wise and good, that she prefers to do just as he wishes her to."
CHAPTER XX.
"Let come what will, I mean to bear it out."
SHAKESPEARE.
"The hour for your music-lesson has arrived, Miss Raymond," announced
Miss Manton.
Rosie and Evelyn both looked entreatingly at Lulu; but scarcely raising her eyes, she simply said, "I shall not take it to-day, Miss Diana."