I who have been used to being poor all my life,--even I, when I am at home, am dismayed by what she has to endure." "What can we do for her, Grace ?" "You can do nothing, Lily.

But when things are like that at home you can understand what I feel in being here." Mrs.Giles and Gregory had now completed their task, or had so nearly done so as to make Miss Dale think that she might safely leave the church.

"We will go in now," she said; "for it is dark and cold, and what I call creepy.

Do you ever fancy that perhaps you will see a ghost some day ?" "I don't think I shall ever see a ghost; but all the same I should be half afraid to be here alone in the dark." "I am often here alone in the dark, but I am beginning to think I shall never see a ghost now.

I am losing all my romance, and getting to be an old woman.