But it does not look a bit new.

Oh, I am glad!" exclaimed Mary, as a long, low hut came in sight, with glass windows and an unpainted front door, which just now stood wide open, while two small girls occupied the doorstep, and were making dolls' bonnets from leaves and plaited grass.
"I'm afraid that is not our house; someone is living there," said Mr.Selincourt: and the two small girls, becoming at this moment aware of the approach of strangers, sprang to their feet and fled into the house, casting the millinery away as they went.
"I'm afraid so too; but at least we can go and enquire where our house is to be found," Mary answered.
Then they walked up to the door and knocked, and immediately a slight, girlish figure came into view, with a small girl clinging to either hand.
"Can you tell us where Mr.Selincourt's house is to be found ?" asked Mary, wondering why the girl had such sad eyes, and what relation she could be to the two little ones.
"This is Mr.Selincourt's house.

I came over this afternoon to see that everything was in right order, that is all," the sad-eyed girl--or was she a woman ?--explained, drawing back for Mary to enter.
Miss Selincourt entered, put her bag on the table, and gazed round with a deep sigh of satisfaction.
"What a charming room! I think I should have been ready to weep if this had not been our house.

Are you Mrs.M'Kree ?" she asked doubtfully, for, although the girl looked so young, she had just heard one of the children whisper, "Mummy." "No, I am Mrs.Burton, and I come from the store across the river.
Mrs.M'Kree lives farther up the river, above the second portage, so it is not easy for her to come down every day, and I have kept the house open for her." "It is very kind of you!" exclaimed Mary gratefully, realizing that here was a very different specimen of womanhood, from the good-natured slattern who had greeted her at Seal Cove.
"We have to be kind to each other in these wilds, or we should be badly off sometimes," Mrs.Burton rejoined.

Then she said timidly: "We are very glad to welcome you, and we all feel that you have conferred a great favour on us by coming to stay here this summer." Something like an awkward lump got into Mary's throat then.