I will, just as soon, that is, as I have broken myself of it.

Will you wait till I have taken myself in hand ?" They were together sitting in a little recess of the rectory parlor, while Mrs.Whittridge and Gerald were talking at the farther end of the room.

Soeur Angelique had invited the two girls to tea, and Halloway, when he came in from his study, seated himself at once by Phebe, though after his warm greeting and self-congratulations upon having her back in her old haunts, he had fallen into quite an unusual silence.

Phebe was looking very sweet and fresh that afternoon.

All the care that she had meant to devote to her toilet upon the occasion of her first meeting with Halloway, she had expended in dressing herself for this visit to the rectory.