ancy wrote her that the arrival of Anne Bradley was daily expected, and no plans could be

days, had retired, gone back to Paris! And Bert was head man, "in the field." His salary was not what Souchard's had been, naturally, but t

h the children. Nancy began to make calls again, and had the children's pictures taken, for Grandmother Bradley, and sometimes gave

nate Thursdays and Sundays she herself had to fill Hannah's place, or Grace's place. They began to think that life would be simpler in the country

t open garage doors, bareheaded on their bicycles, barefooted beside beaches or streams. Their mothers, also white-clad, were busy with agreeable pursuits-gathering roses, or settling

tion tickets. The humblest little country house, with rank neglected grass about i

n. "And I want their memories to be sweet, to be homelike

s cutting grass, picking tomatoes and watering gooseberry bushes had a certain appeal. "I'd like to have the

e Featherstones!" sh

tone is the limit!"

d, hastily, "We COULD have peop