servants and mrs always wanted to lay down the law perhaps on the whole it would be better to start the society quietly among themselves and then gradually to increase it the first meeting should be next wednesday at mrs s house and mrs hunt would bring her b k a complete two volume with her mrs thought that one volume would be enough just at but said that it was better to have a wide choice went home and told in the evening he was pleased but rather you must begin with the things first said he i should recommend and gold hair but put on the charming air of displeasure which became her so well we are serious students sir said she we want the very hardest poem in the book i assure you that one of your little faults is that you always a woman s intelligence hunt says that though wo may be less original than men we are more � more that s what i say � now you always talk as if � oh yea you do no you mustn t how absurd you are i whenever i try to speak seriously to you you always do that and spoil everything how would you like to discuss if at the end of every sentence somebody came and kissed you you wouldn t mind i no i dare say not but you would feel that you were not being taken i the society seriously wait till the next time you are in earnest about anything � you u see i the meeting was to be at three o clock and at ten minutes to the hour mrs hunt arrived with two large brown volumes under her arm she had come early she said because there was to be a of the amateur at the at a quarter past four mrs did not appear until five minutes after the hour her cook had quarrelled with the and given notice with five people coming to dinner on saturday it had upset the lady very much and she explained that she would not have come if she had not promised it was so difficult to follow poetry when you were thinking about the all the time why the asked mrs hunt looking up from the book which she held open in front of her my dear said mrs who had the art of saying the most simple things as if they were profoundly confidential secrets � my dear my is really an excellent cook and i shall rely upon her if really goes but she is limited very limited and and are the two things ia which i cannot a entirely trust her i must therefore find some which ia well within her capacity mrs hunt herself upon her housekeeping so the problem interested her also began to the meeting less dull than she had expected of course there arc many things to be considered said mrs hunt with the air of a q o giving an opinion or vol au are out of season said i was about to say mrs hunt continued with admirable presence of mind that these of are because they are out of season now my husband them well well what do you say to ah you want are salt bacon fat no no cried mrs anne would never remember all that k la said mrs hunt i am sure that they are simple enough butter fowls my dear my dear remember that she ia only a it is unreasonable the society of fowl chicken of with a little we ve got back to after all cried dear me said mrs it is all my fault and i am so sorry now mrs hunt do please read us a little of that delightful poetry you can always get small sent down from the stores cried as a happy thought you dear good girl how sweet of you to think of it of course one can that is really an admirable idea there now we may consider the as being removed so we proceed to the piece de resistance said mrs hunt solemnly glancing down the index of the first volume i confess that my acquaintance with the poet has up to now been rather superficial our ambition must be to so master him that he becomes from this time forward part and parcel of ourselves i fancy that the in understanding him have been very much exaggerated and that with and perseverance we shall manage to overcome them it was a relief to mrs and to a to that mrs hunt knew no more about the matter than themselves they both ventured upon a air now that it was clear that it might be done in safety frowned thoughtfully and mrs east up her pretty brown eyes at the as if she were running over in her memory tlie whole long catalogue of the poet s works i will tell you what we should do said she we must make a vow that we shall never pass a line until we understand it we will go over it again and again until we grasp its meaning what an excellent idea cried with one of her little bursts of enthusiasm now that is really splendid mrs my friends always call me said the little how nice of you to say so i should love to call you so if you don t mind it is such a pretty name too only you must call me you look like a said mrs i always picture a as bright and pretty and isn t it strange how names associate themselves with characters mary ia always domestic and rose is a and is dutiful and is dashing and is and is i te j the society and is impatient said mrs hunt laughing has reason to be seated here with an index in front of her while 