should like to be Queen Bee's deputy."

"But," said Fred, "how does Beatrice manage to make grandmamma endure
such novelties? I should think she would disdain them more than the
old mistress herself."

"Queen Bee's is not merely a nominal sovereignty," said Mrs. Langford.

"Besides," said Henrietta, "the new Clergyman approves of all that sort
of thing; he likes her to teach, and puts her in the way of it."




CHAPTER II.



>From this time forward everything tended towards Knight Sutton: castles
in the air, persuasions, casual words which showed the turn of thought
of the brother and sister, met their mother every hour. Nor was she,
as Henrietta truly said, entirely averse to the change; she loved to
talk of what she still regarded as her home, but the shrinking dread of
the pang it must give to return to the scene of her happiest days, to
the burial-place of her husband, to the abode of his parents, had been
augmented by the tender over-anxious care of her mother, Mrs. Vivian,
who had strenuously endeavoured to prevent her from ever taking such a
proposal into consideration, and fairly led her at length to believe it
out of the question.