The Honorable Miss - L T Meade
So, continued Mrs. Meadowsweet, settling herself in a lazy, fat sort of a way in her easy chair, and looking full at her visitor with a complacent smile, \so I called her Beatrice. I thought under the circumstances it was the best name I could give-it seemed to fit all round, you know, and as he had no objection, being very easy-going, poor man, I gave her the name.\ \Yes?\ interrogated Mrs. Bertram, in a softly surprised, and but slightly interested voice; \you called your daughter Beatrice?..