num_pages: 332
description: I don't know yet whether I'm pleased or not but I do know that I'm excited-more excited than I've ever been in my life except perhaps when Miss Mackinstry my last governess had hysterics in the schoolroom and fainted among the tea things. I suppose I shan't be able to decide about the state of my feelings until I've had more of them on the same subject or until I've written down in this book of mine everything exactly as it's happened. I like doing that; it makes things seem so clear when you try to review them afterwards. The excitement began at breakfast by Mother having a letter that she liked. I knew she liked it by the way her eyes lighted up as if they had been lamps and the letter a match. All the other letters mostly with horrid tradesmanny-looking envelopes which had been making her quite glowery she pushed aside.
language: English
title: Lady Betty Across the Water
publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC