'O hush, Duke!' said Prim. 'That is not a suggestion. But this is; have plenty of closet room.'
'Item; with large closets.'
'Hazel, do tell him something,' said Primrose. 'He is laughing at me.'
Hazel smiled, but she was not much inclined to enter the lists.
'I am sure he has been laughing at me,' she said. 'And I do not know about the houseonly it ought to be perfectly bright and pretty in every way. Because Dr. Maryland will see so much pain in the course of his work, that he ought to find nothing but a welcome when he comes home.'
'Are you satisfied, Arthur?' said Dane, as he gravely added to his notes.
'Quite. One should be, with perfection,' said the doctor. 'If Prim will kindly let me arrange my own closets.'
Prim was silent, and what she was thinking of, this story does not tell; but her next words made rather a bound from these.
'Dane,' she said suddenly, 'is there any necessity for your going down to the mills to-night unless you are sent for?'
'I think it would be proper,' said Dane, making his notes.