Kilmeny of the Orchard

see any one I don’t know, although I don’t think I show it. I am going to church with Uncle and Aunt after this, and to the Missionary Society meetings. And Uncle Thomas says that he will send me to a boarding school in town this win- ter if you think it advisable.”

Eric vetoed this promptly. The idea of Kilmeny in a boarding school was some— thing that could not be thought about without laughter.

“ I can’t see why she can’t learn all she needs to learn after she is married to me, just as well as before,” he grumbled to her uncle and aunt. V

“ But we want to keep her with us for another winter yet,” explained Thomas Gordon patiently. “ We are going to miss her terrible when she does go, Master. She has never been away from us for a day— she is all the brightness there is in our lives. It is very kind of you to say that she can come home whenever she likes, but there will be a great difference.

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