Miss Annie found Letty in a very disturbed state of mind.

The dinner had been postponed until the arrival of Miss March, and now it had been still further delayed by the non-arrival of the mistress of the house, and everything was becoming dried up, and unfit to eat.

"This will never do!" exclaimed Miss Annie.
"I will go myself and look for aunt.

She must have forgotten the time of day, and everything else." Putting on her hat she ran out of the back door, but she did not have to go very far, for she found the old lady in the garden, earnestly regarding a bed of turnips.

"Where have you been, my dear aunt ?" cried the girl.