98 The Story of the Hamiltons.

room; besides, she can put her lozenges or
whatever she wants on a chair by her side,
so that nobody need get up for her."
 Oh, to be sure, so she can. Which room
do you think I shall go to?"
 I don't know at all. Let me see," added
she, in a pondering tone, "there are five
beds up in the south room, they are all full,
so it won't be that; the north is full too."
 "Oh !" interrupted Edith, "I am so rejoiced
at that! I was afraid you were going to say
I should go there; I. heard somebody say
there was a spare bed up there the other
day."
 So there was, but it was only one of those
iron folding bedsteads, and it has been taken
down and put away. I can't see," she added,
"any place for you; the blue room, where
Ellen Masters and that set are, is the emptiest,
so perhaps that little bedstead will be put there
for you."
 "I shouldn't mind being down in the blue
room so much; I like Ellen Masters; but of
course she is too old for a companion to me,
but she is kind, and she often makes Annie
Hore leave off teasing me."
 "Whichever it is, Edith, you had better try
to be contented, nothing annoys Miss Camp-