It was 'all in the family,' and it was so jolly and good-natured, and that dear old man was so bright.

Do you know," she said softly, "I don't think I'm such a stranger--I--I think I love all these people a great deal--in spite of having known them only two days." At that a wild exhilaration possessed him.

He wanted to shake hands with everybody in the tent, to tell them all that he loved them with his whole heart, but, what was vastly more important, _she_ loved them a great deal--in spite of having known them only two days! He made the horses prance on the homeward drive, and once, when she told him that she had read a good many of his political columns in the "Herald," he ran them into a fence.

After this it occurred to him that they were nearing their destination and had come at a perversely sharp gait; so he held the roans down to a snail's pace (if it be true that a snail's natural gait is not a trot) for the rest of the way, while they talked of Tom Meredith and books and music, and discovered that they differed widely about Ibsen.
They found Mr.Fisbee in the yard, talking to Judge Briscoe.

As they drove up, and before the horses had quite stopped, Helen leaped to the ground and ran to the old scholar with both her hands outstretched to him.