The things we do!

That lady vouchsafes a very slight inclination of the head indeed, which
she repeats when Miss Honeyman says, "I am glad to hear your ladyship is
pleased with the apartments."
"Yes, they will do very well, thank you," answers the latter person,
gravely.
"And they have such a beautiful view of the sea!" cries Ethel.
"As if all the houses hadn't a view of the sea, Ethel! The price has been
arranged, I think? My servants will require a comfortable room to dine
in--by themselves, ma'am, if you please. My governess and the younger
children will dine together. My daughter dines with me--and my little
boy's dinner will be ready at two o'clock precisely, if you please. It is
now near one."
"Am I to understand----" interposed Miss Honeyman.
"Oh! I have no doubt we shall understand each other, ma'am," cried Lady
Anne Newcome (whose noble presence the acute reader has no doubt ere this
divined and saluted). "Doctor Goodenough has given me a most satisfactory
account of you--more satisfactory perhaps than--than you are aware of.


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