You can't imagine how kind she was to him. At last she told Fani to
call his master, and when the man came she went out into another
room to talk with him. After a while she came back, and then, what
do you think? She asked Fani if he would not like to go and live
with me at her house! I can't begin to tell you how I felt. At
first I could scarcely breathe for joy, and then I began to think I
must have made a mistake; it couldn't be true. But Fani cried out
with delight, and he seized Mrs. Stanhope's hand and looked at her
so beseechingly, and he promised to work as hard as he could, and
do everything to please her if he might only go. "You shall," she
said; and then she told him when to meet us at the railroad next
day. What a promise for Fani and me!

As we were going back to the hotel, Mrs. Stanhope said to Aunt
Clarissa, "Did you notice the resemblance? Doesn't he look at you
out of his big brown eyes just as my Philo did?" Aunt Clarissa saw
the likeness too, and said that was the reason that she took a
fancy to Fani the moment she saw him. You see, Philo was Nora's
little brother. In the evening, Mrs. Stanhope spoke several times
about the likeness, and it was the first time that she had talked
with us at all. All that night I kept thinking it was too good to
be true; it must be a dream; but the next morning, when we got to
the railroad station, there was Fani, and he had been waiting three
hours, ever since six o'clock. Mrs. Stanhope laughed a little at
his impatience--it was the first time she had laughed at all.

All day long we travelled in the railway carriage, and Fani was as
happy as he could be. When we stopped at a station, and Aunt
Clarissa was going to get out and fetch us something to eat, Mrs.
Stanhope stopped her and said: "No, no; we have an escort now, he