'So I should, the darlings! Well, as things are left, it all goes to
Henry, except the £10,000 Ward had insured his life for, which
divides between the five. He undertakes, most properly, to make them
a home--whether in this house or not is another thing; he and Averil
will look after them; and he made a most right answer when Mr.
Axworthy offered to take Leonard into his office,' proceeded the
communicative Doctor, unable to help pouring himself out, in spite of
time and place, as soon as he had a daughter to himself. 'Settle
nothing now--education not finished; but privately he tells me he
believes his mother would as soon have sent Leonard to the hulks as
to that old rascal, and the scamp, his grand-nephew.'

Mary's answer to this, as his tones became incautiously emphatic, was
a glance round all the attic doors, lest they should have ears.

'Now then, do you want to get home?' said the Doctor, a little
rebuked.

'Oh no, not if there is anything I can do.'

'I want to get this girl away from Leonard. He is just come to the
state when it all turns on getting him off to sleep quietly, and not
disturbing him, and she is too excited and restless to do anything
with her; she has startled him twice already, and then gets upset--
tired out, poor thing! and will end in being hysterical if she does
not get fed and rested, and then we shall be done for! Now I want
you to take charge of her. See, here's her room, and I have ordered
up some tea for her. You must get her quieted down, make her have a
tolerable meal, and when she has worked off her excitement, put her