Dorothy said to her family when she went home: "I can't imagine what is the matter with Cousin Anneke.

All last spring she was nicer to me than she has ever been before, but from the moment I arrived at Newport, and before I could possibly have said or done anything to offend her, she treated me in the snippiest way.

After two days I asked her what the matter was, but she insisted there was nothing, and really lost her temper at my suggesting the idea.

There was something, I know, for when I said I was coming home sooner than I had at first intended, she didn't try to make me stay." "Perhaps," said Mrs.Ogden, "she was disappointed in something, and so vented her feeling on you." "But she wasn't cross--except when I asked her what the matter was.

She was just--just snippy." "Was Mr.Stirling there ?" "Yes.