64 What about Lessons ?

keeping up our watch, and every
now and then we met her eye with
a merry twinkle in it, looking
greatly amused at us.

‘She looks so young, only a
girl! she will never be able to
manage us, Jane says, Lottie
remarked very softly to me; “ but
then, I daresay, she can be cross
enough when she likes, governesses
always are!”

All of a sudden, a merry laugh
startled us both, and in another
minute Lottie found herself flat on
the floor, being tickled and kissed
and laughed over all at once. I
don’t think she quite liked it,