“But people don’t get so crazy-fond o’ books as all that, do they? ’E’s made ’is sister try to read ’em. She’d do anythin’ to please him. But, as I keep tellin’ ’er, so’d ’is mother. D’you ’appen to know anything about Jane?”

“I believe Jane was a bit of a match-maker in a quiet way when she was alive, and I know all her books are full of match-making,” I said. “You’d better look out.”

“Oh, that’s as good as settled,” Anthony replied, blushing.

[3] “Get out, you dog.”

JANE’S MARRIAGE

Jane went to Paradise:

That was only fair.

Good Sir Walter met her first,

And led her up the stair.

Henry and Tobias,