Do not let us disturb her until the doctor comes; the nap will do her good." "Suppose, then," said Ralph, "that we take a little turn in the moonlight.

Then we need not trouble ourselves to lower our voices." "That will be very well," said Dora, "but I am afraid she may take cold, although the night air is so soft.

I think I saw a lap robe on a table in the hall; I will spread that over her." Ralph whispered that he would get the robe, but motioning him back, and having tiptoed into the hall and back again, Dora laid the light covering over the sleeping girl so gently that the regular breathing was not in the least interrupted.

Then they both went quietly down the steps, and out upon the lawn.
"She is such a dear girl," said Dora, as they slowly moved away, "and although we only met to-day, I am really growing very fond of her, and I like her the better because there is still so much of the child left in her.

Do not you like her the better for that, Mr.Haverley ?" Ralph did agree most heartily, and it made him happy to agree on any subject with a girl who was even more beautiful by moonlight than by day; who was so kind, and tended to his sister, and whose generous disposition could overlook little breaches of etiquette when there was reason to do so.
As they walked backward and forward, not very far away from the piazza, and sometimes stopping to admire bits of the silver-tinted landscape, Dora, with most interesting deftness, gave Ralph further opportunity of knowing her.