'No, no,' said Peggy hurriedly; 'he can't afford it. That's one comfort in not being well off, at any rate. And you know he said Lilian was to do the housekeeping. Oh, I don't think he would like that kind of a governess any better than we should ourselves--' privately hoping that Father's notions of self-sacrifice would not make him see fit to inflict so great a penance on himself and his family.