"Ten, if you please," she answered.

"I hope you will go with us ?" "I shall do so with pleasure," he said.

"It is a lovely morning for a drive; the rain has laid the dust and the air is just cool enough to be bracing." Evelyn was on the veranda, gazing about her with a thoughtful air.
"Well, lassie, what think you of Fairview ?" asked her uncle, coming to her side.
"I like it," she answered emphatically.

"Didn't something happen here, uncle, in the time of the Ku-Klux raids?
I seem to have heard there did." "Yes; a coffin, with a threatening notice attached, was laid at the gate yonder one night.

My uncle owned, and lived on, the place at that time, and by reason of his northern birth and Republican sentiments, was obnoxious to the members of the klan." "And it was he they were threatening ?" "Yes.