(It was only a clergyman and his wife who called, and hot cakes for tea.) The second time they said they were lucky not to have been in it.

And perhaps they were right.

But let me to my narrating.

I hope you will like it.

I am going to try to write it a different way, like the books they give you for a prize at a girls' school--I mean a 'young ladies' school', of course--not a high school.