"But Mr.Selincourt has come, and I had to go over to report progress to him." "What very nice people they are!" exclaimed Mrs.Burton with enthusiasm.

"I was charmed with Miss Selincourt.

She will be a great acquisition here this summer." "Yes," Jervis remarked in an abstracted fashion, but not paying much heed to what was being said, for he was in perplexity as to why Katherine was not visible; and seeing no prospect of finding out without a direct question, he made the plunge and asked: "Where is your sister?
Isn't she well ?" "Katherine has gone to bed, because she is so tired to-night.

She and Phil have done the backache portage, as they call it, and it always wears her so much, poor girl," Mrs.Burton answered with a sigh.

Then she said, with an involuntary lowering of her voice as she glanced at her father: "Katherine does not like the idea of our telling Father that Mr.Selincourt has come.