[CHAPTER I. LIKE FATHER UNLIKE SON.]
[CHAPTER II. A PEEP INTO AN EARTHLY PARADISE, AND A MEETING WITH EVE.]
[CHAPTER III. MR. WALTHEW IS FAR FROM EASY IN HIS MIND.]
[DEAR MISS MEG]
[CHAPTER I.]
MISTRESS AND MAID.—A BRIDE'S HOMECOMING.
"THORLEY; go and tell Miss Margaretta to make less noise. How can I get my afternoon nap with that girl screeching and screaming loud enough to be heard beyond the park? I suppose she thinks I cannot be disturbed by her noise when she is out of doors, though I have told her twenty times already that she has a voice like a railway-whistle, and that it travels as far as one. It seems to me I cannot get out of reach of it. Thorley, why don't you go? What are you waiting for?"