"Certainly, if you wish it," she said, coldly.
Halloway bent and kissed Olly's flushed face.

"Do you hear, my boy?
It is all right now, and there is Maggie calling you to swing her.

Don't forget you promised to make me a visit at the rectory to-morrow." Olly threw his arms around Denham's knees and gave him a convulsive hug.
"I like you though you _are_ a minister," he said, through his tears.

"I just wish you were my sister!" And then he went slowly off to Maggie, and Denham and Gerald stood silently where he had left them.

Gerald was the first to speak.
"You think I am hard on Olly.