Cartwright, had married two years ago.

There was nothing to say against it, only grandmamma observed, "I am
too old to catch things; Joe will let me stay and keep house for
him."

"Please, please let me stay with granny," insisted Janet; "then I
shall finish my German classes."

Janet was granny's child. She had slept in her room ever since Allen
was born, and trotted after her in her "housewifeskep," and the sense
of being protected was passing into the sense of protection. Before
she could be answered, however, there was an announcement. Friends
were apt to drop in to coffee and talk in the evening, on the
understanding that certain days alone were free-—people chiefly
belonging to a literary, scientific, and artist set, not Bohemian,
but with a good deal of quiet ease and absence of formality.

This friend had just returned from Asia Minor, and had brought an
exquisite bit of a Greek frieze, of which he had become the happy
possessor, knowing that Mrs. Joseph Brownlow would delight to see it,
and mayhap to copy it.

For Carey's powers had been allowed to develop themselves; Mrs.
Brownlow having been always housekeeper, she had been fain to go on
with the studies that even her preparation for governess-ship had not
rendered wearisome, and thus had become a very graceful modeller in
clay-—her favourite pursuit-—when her children's lessons and other
occupations left her free to indulge in it. The history of the
travels, and the account of the discovery, were given and heard with