Emily
would be always among them, and think she liked it; but I knew how it
would be. It was just so when I took her to a kind friend of ours
after the little girls were taken; she had the children constantly
with her, but I never saw her so ill as she was afterwards."
"Reaction! Well, whenever you please; you shall have your rooms to
yourselves, and only see us when you like. But I don't mean to press
you; only, what are you going to do next?"
"I can hardly tell. There are business matters of our own, and about
poor James's little girl, to keep us here a little while." ("Who is
that?" thought Kate.)
"Then you must go into our house. I was in hopes it might be so, and
told the housekeeper to make ready."
"Thank you; if Emily--We will see, when she comes in I want to make
up my mind about that child. Have you seen much of her?"
Kate began to think honour required her to come forward, but her
heart throbbed with fright.
"Not so much as I could wish. It is an intelligent little monkey,
and our girls were delighted with her; but I believe Barbara thinks
me a corrupter of youth, for she discountenances us."
"Ah! one of the last times I was alone with Giles, he said, smiling,
'That little girl in Bruton Street will be just what Mamma wants;'
and I know Emily has never ceased to want to get hold of the
motherless thing ever since Mrs. Wardour's death. I know it would be
the greatest comfort to Emily, but I only doubted taking the child
away from my sisters.
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