MRS.

TOLBRIDGE'S REPORT IS NOT ACCEPTED A few days after Miss Bannister's call at Cobhurst, it was returned by Ralph and Miriam, who drove to Thorbury with the brown mare and the gig.
To their disappointment, they found that the young lady was not at home, and the communicative maid informed them that she had gone to the city to help Mrs.Tolbridge to get a new cook.
They went home by the way of the Witton house, and there they found Miss Panney at home.

The old lady was very much interested in Miriam, whom she had not before seen out of bed.

She scrutinized the girl from hat to boots.
"What do you want me to call you, my dear ?" she asked.

"Don't you honestly think you are too young to be called Miss Haverley ?" "I think it would be very well if you were to call me Miriam," said the other, who was of the opinion that Miss Panney was old enough to call any woman by her Christian name.
The conversation was maintained almost entirely by the old lady and Ralph, for Miriam was silent and very solemn.