Dr.Grey is probably aware of it all ?" "Which may be the reason I am never invited to the Lodge," laughed the young man, so pleasantly that one would hardly have paused to consider what he laughed at or what it implied.

"By-the-by, I hear they had such a pleasant gathering there last night--a musical evening, where every body sang a great deal, and Mrs.Grey only once, but then, of course, divinely.

I should like to hear her again.

But look, there are the children.

Shall I take the liberty of unfastening for them the latch of your garden gate ?" He sprang out of the low window, and came back heading the small battalion of visitors--Phillis, Arthur, Letitia, and Oliver.