20 THE TWO COUSINS.

 

she once said to her mother.
“J should like to know why
they love her more than they
do me.”

I am not sure that her mo-
ther told, her the secret. But
I think it would not have been
difficult for her to do so. You
can guess what it was, little
girl, can you not? I could
have told her pretty easily.

But I have quite a different