Where was her holiday to be spent?
Miss Barfoot suggested the lake country.
'I was thinking of it myself,' said Rhoda.

'I should like to have some sea-bathing, though.

A week by the shore, and then the rest of the time spent in vagabondage among the mountains, would suit me very well.

Mrs.
Cosgrove is at home in Cumberland; I must ask her advice.' This was done, and there resulted a scheme which seemed to excite Rhoda with joyous anticipation.

On the coast of Cumberland, a few miles south of St.Bees, is a little place called Seascale, unknown to the ordinary tourist, but with a good hotel and a few scattered houses where lodgings can be obtained.