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Rh as in old, old school days. “And,” said Nina, happily; “poor Bill’s upstairs, now, putting his things around to suit him. Living for so long in a small lodging all his things staid in a trunk. A lodging-room always has various folks around, you know, and a man don’t lay his things out as in his own room. So—”

“Nina,” said Lady Gadsby; “do you know what brought him out of his old shut-in way of looking at things?”

“From just a word or two Bill drops, occasionally, I think that a child is—”

And Lady Gadsby, [sic] said; “You know our Good Book’s saying about; ‘And a tiny child shall,’ [sic]”