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Updated: June 1, 2025
'I don't think it will be that way this time, said Frances in a tone of quiet conviction. 'There's something different about the Harpers. 'It isn't a very uncommon name, said Jacinth. 'There are all sorts of Harpers. Why, at Stannesley, the village schoolmaster's wife was called Harper before she married, I remember. And then Lord Elvedon's family name is Harper.
'You see at Stannesley there were really no children, no girls any way near our age except the Vicar's daughter, and though she came to have tea with us sometimes it wasn't much pleasure not fun, at least. She's a little older than Miss Jacinth, and oh, Phebe, she's so awfully deaf. It's almost like not hearing at all. 'Poor young lady! said Phebe, sympathisingly. 'Yes, isn't it sad?
'It felt very like Stannesley, was the verdict of the two younger ones, who had not been at Elvedon before, which seemed to please Lady Myrtle. 'Yes, she said. 'I think you will feel more at home than if you spent the day at Thetford.
We tell her at least I do everything that puzzles us, even things I can't understand about about religion, and here Frances grew red. 'Though that's one thing that's better here than at Stannesley; the Bible classes are so nice. 'But Frances, repeated Bessie, 'about not telling Jacinth? It is only till I write to mother and get her answer.
'Now, Uncle Marmy, wouldn't it be perfectly lovely if papa's time was out, and he and mamma had come home and we were all going to live here just fancy! 'It's awfully pretty, said Marmaduke, 'but when your father's time's up I want you all to come back to live at Stannesley with me. Jacinth laughed. 'No, that wouldn't do, she said. 'You'd be getting married.
For even at Stannesley Mrs Denison's age and fragile health had often made it impossible for them to be with her as much as she would have liked: they had early learned to be 'very good at amusing themselves.
But at Stannesley, where we lived before, granny always got us very nice dresses: she used often to send to London for them. I don't believe Aunt Alison will care so much how we are dressed. Do you have an allowance for your gloves, Margaret? We do. I got a new pair yesterday, but I'm afraid they're not very good; where are they, I wonder?
'It is like being at Stannesley again, thought Jacinth, 'only poor granny's carriage and horses, and old Simpson the coachman, weren't half so nice as all this is.
'We do have a change sometimes, said Jacinth. 'We always have golden syrup on Saturdays and jam on Sundays, and you know we've had buns two or three times on birthdays. 'Other children have buns and cakes far oftener than us, said Eugene. 'Like we used to at Stannesley. 'It was quite different there, said Jacinth; 'a big country-house and baking at home.
'I know what you mean, said Jacinth, eagerly 'enormous mirrors with huge gilt frames, and enormous gilt cornices over the window curtains, and great big patterns on the carpets. There was a house near Stannesley like that. It was interesting, something like an old palace, and grand; but I shouldn't like to live in a house of that kind. 'No, there seems nothing personal about it.
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