e loss of Betty?

"Betty was younger than Mrs. Howard, but she was called away before
her; she had lived forty years with Mrs. Howard in this very house, and
the loss could not be made up to her in this world.

"Mrs. Howard had a great-nephew, a surgeon, of the name of Johnson, who
lived in a fair village, called Pangbourne, in Berkshire; and when he
heard of the death of Betty, and how low his aunt was, he came to her,
and persuaded her to leave the country, and go and reside near to him.
She was at first unwilling to go, but was at last persuaded; she took
nothing with her but her favourite chair, her old round table, her
books, and her cabinet. Her nephew got her some very pleasant rooms in
a house called the Wood House, about half a mile from the village,
towards the hills which are near the place. That side of Pangbourne was
in those days almost a continued wood coppice, with occasional tall
trees towards the hills, and there was a narrow road and raised path
through the wood to the town.

"Mrs. Howard's parlour had an old-fashioned bow-window in it, looking
to the road, though somewhat raised above it; and Mrs. Howard, as old
people do, loved in fine weather to sit in the bow, and see the few
people who passed.

"Every day her kind nephew came to see her, and now and then she
returned his visit; but she was getting very infirm, though she had
lost neither sight nor hearing, could read and work as in her younger
days, and having got over the first shock of losing Betty, and the
fatigue of the change, her faith in God's love was making her as happy
as she had been before; she liked the people also who kept the house,
and made herself very pleasant to them. Though she went to Pangbourne
in the autumn, she did not, until the month of April, find the pleasure
of sitting in the bow-window.

"It was then that she first noticed two little girls passing and
returning every day at certain hours to and from the village.

"They were so near of a size that she thought they must be twins. They
were very fair, and very pretty, and very neat. They wore light green
stuff frocks, with lawn aprons and tippets, and little tight neat silk
bonnets of the colour of their frocks. They both always carried a sort
of satchel, as if they were going and coming from school; and there was
often with them, when they went to the village, either a man or woman
servant, such as might be supposed to belong to a farmhouse. They
often, however,