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 "My carriage is at the door, Miss Hopkinson, and I will put you down at the hospital; while you send your little nephew home, I will put on my bonnet, and we will meet you in the hall."

"Oh, thank you," said Janet, "then I am sure of being in time for Mrs. Thompson," and she ran hastily down stairs.

"Now that is what I call a pleasing girl," said the Duchess, "not shy, nor awkward, and yet not forward; and she is evidently spending her quiet little life in doing all the good that comes within her means. Then her singing! My dear, I am ashamed of myself. I began to fancy that the Duke was old Robin Grey, and that I must have jilted some Jamie for him. You and Aileen, Blanche, have escaped being fast—"

"Thanks to Aunt Sarah," said Blanche.

"And thanks to your own good sense and taste; but if you could see some of the young girls who have hardly been out a year! their forward manners, the way in which they talk upon subjects, which even now I should be