“I danced twice, and a great plague it was. Only with Mr. Glover and with a stupid little middy. I was thinking all the time how senseless it was.” “How agreeable you must have been!” “One can’t be agreeable to people like that. Oh, Bobus!” as he came into the room with Mr. Ogilvie, “I’ve found out--” “I thought Jessie was here,” he interrupted. “She’s gone home. I know what was wrong yesterday. We ought to have isolated the hypo--” “Isolated the grandmother,” said Bobus. “That has nothing to do with it.” “I’m sure of it. I’ll show you how it acts.” “I’ll show you just the contrary.” “Not to-night,” cried their mother, as Bobus began to relight the lamp. “You two explosives are quite perilous enough by day without lamps and candles.” “You endure a great deal,” said Mr. Ogilvie. “I’m not afraid of either of these two doing anything dangerous singly, for they are both careful, but when they are of different minds, I never know what the collision may produce.” “Yes,” said Bobus, “I’d much sooner have Jessie to help me, for she does what she is bid, and never thinks.” “That’s all you think women good for,” said Janet. “Quite true,” said Bobus, coolly. And Mr. Ogilvie was acknowledged by his sister to have done a good deed that night, since the Folly might be far more secure when Janet tried her experiments alone. CHAPTER XIV. -- PUMPING AWAY. The rude will scuffle through with ease enough, Great schools best suit the sturdy and the rough. Soon see your wish fulfilled in either child, The pert made perter, and the tame made wild. Cowper. Robert Otway Brownlow came out fourth on the roll of newly-elected scholars of S. Mary, Winton, and his master was, as his sister declared, unwholesomely proud of it, even while he gave all credit to the Folly, and none to himself. Still Mary had her way and took him to Brittany, and though her present pupils were to leave the schoolroom at Christmas, she would bind herself to no fresh engagement, thinking that she had better be free to make a home for him, whether at Kenminster or elsewhere. When the half-year began again Bobus was a good deal missed, Jock was in a severe idle fit, and Armine did not come up to the expectations formed of him, and was found, when “up to Mr. Perkins,” to be as bewildered and unready as other people.