We have had cake and wine
to drink her health. You promised to be our governess if we
wanted another. We want you. Mamma knows nothing about this.
Please come before Mamma can get another governess. Your loving Lucy,
who writes this. Clara and Blanche have tried to write too.
But they are too young to do it. They blot the paper.'
'Your eldest niece,' Agnes explained, as Henry looked at her in amazement.
'The children used to call me aunt when I was staying with their
mother in Ireland, in the autumn. The three girls were my
inseparable companions--they are the most charming children I know.
It is quite true that I offered to be their governess, if they
ever wanted one, on the day when I left them to return to London.
I was writing to propose it to their mother, just before you came.'
'Not seriously!' Henry exclaimed.
Agnes placed her unfinished letter in his hand. Enough of it had been
written to show that she did seriously propose to enter the household
of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Westwick as governess to their children!
Henry's bewilderment was not to be expressed in words.
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