"About the what?" interrupted Mrs. Hemson.
"While Selina was ill, she saw mamma. She said the Keppe-Carews always had these warnings."
"Child, be silent!" imperatively spoke Mrs. Hemson. "How could they think of imbuing you with their superstitions. It is all fancy."
"Mamma had the same warning, Mrs. Hemson. She said papa called her."
"Be quiet, I say, child!" she repeated, in a tone of emotion. "These subjects are totally unfit for you. Mind, Anne, that you do not allude to them before my little girls; and forget them yourself."
"They do not frighten me. But I should not speak of them to any one but you, Mrs. Hemson."
"Frances and Mary will be home from school at five, and be delighted to make acquaintance with you. You are going to school yourself next week. Have you heard that?"
"To a school in Dashleigh?"
"In the suburbs. The trustees have at length decided it, and I shall be at hand, in case of your illness, or anything of that sort. Had your Aunt Selina lived, you would have been placed at Nettleby."
"Where am I to spend the holidays?"