brought. We'll have a cigar all round and be friends. Smoke the pipe
of peace.'

Dolores afterwards thought how grand it would have been to have
replied, 'Dolores Mohun will never be intimidated;' but the fact was
that her spirit did quail at the thought of the tortures which the two
boys might inflict on her if Mysie abandoned her to their mercy, and
she was relieved, as well as surprised to find that her offence was
condoned, and she was treated as if nothing had happened.

Meantime Aunt Jane was asking in the drawing-room, 'How do you get on?'

'Fairly well,' was Lady Merrifield's answer. 'We shall work together in
time.'

'What does Gill say?' asked the aunt, rather mischievously.

'Well,' said the young lady, 'I don't think we get on at all, not even
poor Mysie, who works steadily on at her, gets snubbed a dozen times a
day, and never seems to feel it.'

I hoped her father would have sent her to school,' said Aunt Adeline.
'I knew she would be troublesome. She has all her mother's pride.'

'The proudest people are those who have least to be proud of,' said
Aunt Jane.

'School would have hardened the crust and kept up the alienation,' said
Lady Merrifield.