though it were only, "Here's the doctor, mem!" or "Dinner's ready, mem!" and Marga

bly at the sight of her, an

ar, or a glimpse of Schiehallion," said she, as they kissed

s all that!" laughed Margaret. "And I certai

at question, at any rate," he s

is no mountain in the world to compare with it. You see how one's judgmen

er very lively, you know. If anything, I think she i

busied in good works

de,"-at which gentle t

charity, would be none the less commendable to its relations if it sometimes remembered that

iven you up?" asked Lady Elspeth. "

b. But he's not there all the time, and we have relapses. He has his own rooms elsewhere, you know.

ort to Mrs. Pixley to ha

t quite angry with Uncle Jeremiah sometimes. He is so-so absorbed in benefiting other people that he-We

twinkle in the brown eyes. "Some people carry

Margaret, who was evidently suffering fr

y or so somewhere about, if you know w

ming here as regularly as the m

aret. "I also have a craving for sunshine, and I naturally come where I k

yself I'll be getting, if

think half as well of yourself

ome of the credit on to us for

good to be young,"

o have delightful old

the young ones," la

ak for th

ociety," said Margaret. "Have you been dinin

t been there for an age-not since that last Ladies' Dinner, in fact. You see,

ams," suggeste

ther t

n another book?

per shape, but once it is going, the work is very absorbing and sheer deli

ome with me to the Riviera, but she flatly refuses

ination that way myself," said Lady Elspeth. "I wonder if you'd fe

ady Elspeth, and I'll promise not

y, with Lady Elspeth's earlier suggestion to himself danci

Margaret. "It still has bridge,

nowing that they always enjoyed a little personal chat, he reluctantl