independence, there are now plenty of duties for me to perform at
Cumber Priory, where I am governess to a brood of pretty children,
who call me auntie, and hold me scarcely second to their mother in
their warm young hearts. Angus Egerton is a model country squire and
master of the hounds; and he and his wife enjoy an unbroken
popularity among rich and poor. Peter is under-gardener at the
Priory, and no longer lives with his grandmother, who left her
cottage soon after Mrs. Darrell's suicide, and is supposed to have
gone to London.