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Mamma says it's very teasing to talk about secrets, but it's all right now, and we are all going to be so happy with the doll-house, aren't we? Now you must kiss Celestina too; you don't know what a lot she's done. She hemmed the sheets of the beds and the table-cloths and ever so many things, and her mamma dressed the dolls and oh yes, Roughie papered nearly all the rooms, and

'I think I like droind-rooms better than parlours, she said, returning to their conversation in the street, 'except for the sweet little window, and in another instant she had mounted the chair and was peering through. 'Oh, it is nice, she said. 'I can see Roughie' for Rough, had considered it more manly to stay in the shop 'and Mr. your papa, Celestina.

'But you ran splendidly for a bit, said Randolph; 'and I'll tell you what, Biddy, it would be a very good thing for you to run a good deal more than you do. It'll make you grow and stop you getting too fat. 'I'm not fatter than you were when you were as little as me, Roughie.

And Rough is a great comfort, even though he has to be away and you know, Alie, she went on quite gravely, 'I don't think there could have been another as good as papa, not in the same way: he's just nearly an angel. Alie did not disagree. 'And Roughie will be home before your next birthday, you know. 'I hope so indeed, said Rosalys.

'I didn't mean to be cross, she said to herself in her usual way, though she really did feel what she said this time. 'It was kind of Roughie to come to meet me. They're all good 'acept me. Celestina's good too. I'm made all the wrong way, and she sighed deeply. She brightened up again, however, when she met her mother at the door. 'That's right, Biddy dear, said Mrs. Vane.