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 he's in a fair way to be utterly spoiled. Missus telled me to keep him out of the way, as my Lady was so kind about the garden; but Law, first one and then another comes, and the tall gentleman with the moustache who is there for everlasting, wanted to put him cot and all into a boat and give him a row; but I thought he might be drownded like; and I knowed I should be sea sick, so I said, no; and now, Miss, will you come?"

"Must I go Mamma? That poor Mrs. Thompson is dimisseddismissed [sic] from the hospital to-day, and she has not a friend nor a relation in the world, and I promised to go and see her, and consult with the matron as to what could be done for her.

"Is she a widow?" asked Willis.

"Yes, her husband was drowned, and she met with some dreadful accident, and has been in the hospital for three months."

"Well, in consequence of her bereavement, I will give you the price of one of these tickets," said Willis, who was in high good humour at the notice taken of his child, and