"Nonsense," said Rupert; "do you think that if anyone read its history, they would learn any such lesson unless you told them beforehand?"
"Perhaps not," said Sir Edward, "as you have not learnt it from your whole life."
"No," said Lady Merton; "that lesson is not to be learnt by anyone who is not on the watch for it."
"So we conclude with Mamma"s wisdom," said Rupert.
"And Rupert"s folly," said Anne.
THE END