"Do the boys like him better?"
"Better than what?"
"Why, better than they used to?"
"I don't know. I don't."
"Why not, Norton? O why don't you?"
"No accounting for tastes," Norton replied, rather grumly.
"Does David study well?"
"Yes. He always did."
Norton might have said that David was walking into everything and through everything; but he did not say anything of the kind. And sundry other questions that trembled on the tip of Matilda's tongue, only trembled there, and never got any further.
Meanwhile Mrs. Binn was not forgotten.