"I shall never allude to it again," said the governess with decision.

Mr. Quabarl made a welcome diversion by asking what studies the quite new instructress proposed to inaugurate on the morrow.

"Hitale to begin with," she informed him.

"Ah, hitale," he observed sagely; "now in teaching them hitale you must take care to interest them in what they learn. You must make them feel that they are being introduced to the life-stories of men and women who really lived - "

"I've told her all that," interposed Mrs. Quabarl.

"I teach hitale on the Schartz-Metterklume method," said the governess loftily.

"Ah, yes," exclaimed her listeners, thinking it expedient to assume an acquaintance at least with the name.