"
"Don't call me that, dear," he said in a tone of gentle, half remorseful
expostulation.
"Why not? doesn't the Bible say Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord?"
"But it doesn't say master, and besides, these are very different times."
"We seem to have changed sides on that subject," she said, with a merry
little laugh, as she laid the brush away, and standing behind his chair,
put her arms around his neck and laid her cheek to his.
He drew her round to a seat upon his knee. "Darling, I don't mean to play
the tyrant, and am quite ashamed of some things I said last night."
"Then you won't say them any more, will you? I was really afraid you were
turning into a horrid tyrant. Oh, you haven't told me who the visitors are
who came in the carriage with you!"
"The daughter and niece of an old friend of my father's, Miss Fanny Deane
and Miss Susie Fleming."
"How long are they likely to stay?"
"I don't know; probably two or three weeks."
"You asked what I'd been doing. Studying hard part of the time, that I
might please this old tutor of mine," giving him another tug. "Will you be
pleased to hear me recite now?"
"There would not be time before tea, dear," he said, consulting his watch;
"so we will put it off till later in the evening.
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